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Yume

A book by Sifton Tracey Anipare.

Sifton Tracey Anipare

Cybelle teaches English in a small city in Japan. Her contract is up for renewal, her mother is begging her to come back to Canada, and she is not sure where she belongs anymore. She faces ostracism and fear daily, but she loves her job, despite its increasing difficulties. She vows to do her best even when her sleep, appetite, and life in general start to get weird, and conforming to the rules that once helped her becomes a struggle.

Meanwhile,yokaifeast and cavort around Osaka and Kyoto as the barrier between their world and the human world thins. Zaniel spends his nights walking the dream world and serving his demon "bodyguard," Akki. But there is a newyokaion the scene, and it has gotten on Akki's bad side. When Cybelle gets caught up in the supernatural clash, she has to figure out what is real and, more importantly, what she really wants before her life spirals out of control altogether. (From DundurnPress)

Sifton Tracey Anipare is a Ghanaian Canadian writer who has lived and taught in Japan for four years.Yumeis her first novel.

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