Suzanne Kamata

A DEEP SOUTH MAGAZINE Summer 2024 READING LIST Selection AMERICAN WRITING AWARDS—Finalist—Women's Fiction LOS ANGELES BOOK FESTIVAL—Winner—General Fiction Cinnamon Beach is a multicultural tragicomedy, told from three female perspectives, in which an American writer living in Japan...

Squeaky Wheels: Travels with my Daughter by Train, Plane, Metro, Tuk-tuk and Wheelchair is a mother-daughter travel memoir woven with comparative culture and accessibility awareness. Kamata's adventures with her teen—who happens to be deaf, with cerebral palsy, and in a wheelchair—through...

When Christine, an idealistic young American teacher, meets and marries Hideki Yamada, an aspiring Japanese high school baseball coach, she believes that their love with be enough to sustain them as they deal with cultural differences. However, Hideki's duties, and the team of fit, obedient boys...

Thirteen-year-old Satoshi Matsumoto spent the last three years living in Atlanta where he was the star of his middle-school baseball team - a slugger with pro potential. Now that his father's work in the US has come to an end, he's moved back to his hometown in rural Japan....