Cinnamon Beach — Suzanne Kamata

CINNAMON BEACH is a multicultural tragicomedy told from three strong female points of view 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 when an impromptu book-signing reconnects the writer with her college friend who is now a famous African American country singer, and her daughter who is deaf finds a secret first love, providing readers a reflection on death, divorce, disconnection, and how summer on the hot sand can usher in surprises.