On Tour 07/01/24-08/07/24 “Cinnamon Beach” by Suzanne Kamata

Release Date: July 2, 2024

About The Book:

CINNAMON BEACH is a multicultural tragicomedy, told from three female perspectives, in which an American writer living in Japan returns to South Carolina to scatter the ashes of her brother while trying to maintain the “perfect-family” facade she created from afar, and support her Indian American sister-in-law who wants a future which might upset everyone. Sparks fly at an impromptu book-signing when the author reconnects with her college friend, now a famous African American country music star, and her daughter who is deaf finds ways to commu- nicate with a secret first-love.

About The Author:

Suzanne Kamata was born and raised in Grand Haven, Michigan, and later moved to South Carolina where she graduated from the University of South Carolina. She is the author of the award-winning short story collection, The Beautiful One Has Come and four previous novels – Losing Kei (Leapfrog Press, 2008), which has been translated into Russian; Gadget Girl: The Art of Being Invisible (GemmaMedia, 2013) winner of multiple awards including the APALA Honor Award and the Paris Book Festival Grand Prize; Screaming Divas (Merit Press, 2014) which was named to the ALA Rainbow List; and The Baseball Widow (Wyatt-MacKenzie,2021), IPPY Gold Winner and 2022 NYC Big Book Award Winner.

She has also received awards from the Sustainable Arts Foundation, the Independent Publisher’s Association, SCBWI, and Half the World Global Literati Awards. Additionally, she has edited three well-received anthologies, and her essays have appeared in Real Simple, Brain, Child, literarymama.com and many others.

She has an MFA from the University of British Columbia, and teaches English at Tokushima University in Japan. She lives in Tokushima Prefecture with her husband and cats. https://www.suzannekamata.com

Social Media:

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Book Blurbs:

Told in three strong female points of view, this poignant but pithy novel follows a multicultural family in transition, as they meet on Cinnamon Beach to heal wounds both old and new.”—Kathryn Brown Ramsperger

It’s hard to describe how much I loved Cinnamon Beach. It is a five-star page-turner showing the complex lives of people living in a complex modern world.”— Diane Hawley Nagatomo, author of The Butterfly Cafe

Bloggers On Tour:

July 1st- Cassie’s Book Reviews https://instagram.com/cassies_books_reviews

July 4th- Dani Reads https://instagram.com/dani.reads.1225

July 7th Plains Reading https://instagram.com/plains_reading

July 9th- Lindas Book Obsession https://www.facebook.com/lindasbookobsession/

July 10th- Reading Is My Remedy https://instagram.com/reading_is_my_remedy

July 11th- Books and Coffee MX https://instagram.com/booksandcoffeemx

July 12th- Novels and Latte Book Club –https://www.facebook.com/groups/357651988042629

July 15th- Love My Books 2020 https://instagram.com/lovemybooks2020

July 24th- Marilyn Goncalves https://instagram.com/marilynjgon

July 25th- Sarahs Bookish Reviews https://instagram.com/sarahs.bookish.reviews

July 26th – Books Love And Understanding https://instagram.com/booksloveandunderstanding