Half World

Illustrated by Jillian Tamaki.

Melanie Tamaki is an outsider.

Unpopular and impoverished, she is the only child of a loving but neglectful mother. She barely copes with surviving school and life. But everything changes on the day she returns home to find her mother is missing, lured back to Half World by a vile creature calling himself Mr. Glueskin. Soon Melanie embarks on an epic and darkly fantastical journey to Half World to save her mother. What she does not yet realize is that the state of the universe is at stake...

Award winning author, Hiromi Goto's novel is an adventurous, genre-bending fantasy of shape-shifting characters, tortured half lives, and redemption.

“A haunting combination of a coming-of-age story and a spiritual quest... Wonderfully odd, and quite unforgettable.” — Neil Gaiman

“An absolute treasure of a book, one of those hidden gems that deserves as wide an audience as possible.” — Charles de Lint