Water Moon

 Water Moon by Samantha Sotto Yambao, 384 pages.

In Hana's world, your fate is inked onto your skin for your whole life. Hers is to inherit a pawnshop where people from our world go to sell their greatest regrets, a tiny bridge between Tokyo and her own world of magic. On the day that she inherits the shop she instead wakes to find it ransacked and her father gone. She and a young physicist who wandered in from Tokyo (the first to find the shop with no regrets to sell) go on a desperate journey to the furthest corners of Hana's world to find her father before it's too late and Hana loses her destiny forever. 

This book was amazing. There's something very mythic about Hana's world, where travel can be by puddle, song, rumor, the bridge between midnight and morning, and many other ways beside. The plentiful details of the world somehow felt to me both comfortable and fresh, old and new. I was expecting something much simpler from this book than what I got, and I found the philosophy mixed with adventure very compelling. This novel is beautiful, heartbreaking, and immersive. I would highly recommend it.