A tale for the time being / Ruth Ozeki.
By: Ozeki, Ruth
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BookPlace of publication: s.lPublisher: Penguin BooksDate of publication: 2013Description: 422 pages: partly illustrated, 22 cm.ISBN: 9780143124870.Subject(s): Teenage girls -- Fiction | Buddhist nuns -- Fiction | Women authors -- Fiction | Tokyo (Japan) -- Fiction | Vancouver Island (B.C.) -- FictionDDC classification: F Oz99 2013 TAL Summary: On a remote island in the Pacific Northwest, a Hello Kitty lunchbox washes up on the beach. Tucked inside is the diary of a sixteen-year-old Japanese girl named Nao Yasutani. Ruth - a writer who finds the lunchbox - suspects that it is debris from Japan's 2011 tsunami. Once she begins to read the diary, Ruth quickly finds herself drawn into the mystery of Nao's fate. Meanwhile in Tokyo, Nao, uprooted from her home in the U.S., bullied at school, and watching her parents spiral deeper into disaster, has decided to end her life. But first, she wants to recount the story of her great-grandmother, a 104-year-old Zen Buddhist nun, in the pages of her secret diary...
Full of Ruth Ozeki's signature humor and insight, A Tale for the Time Being deftly blurs the line between fact and fiction.
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Includes appendices and list of bibliographical references.
On a remote island in the Pacific Northwest, a Hello Kitty lunchbox washes up on the beach. Tucked inside is the diary of a sixteen-year-old Japanese girl named Nao Yasutani. Ruth - a writer who finds the lunchbox - suspects that it is debris from Japan's 2011 tsunami. Once she begins to read the diary, Ruth quickly finds herself drawn into the mystery of Nao's fate. Meanwhile in Tokyo, Nao, uprooted from her home in the U.S., bullied at school, and watching her parents spiral deeper into disaster, has decided to end her life. But first, she wants to recount the story of her great-grandmother, a 104-year-old Zen Buddhist nun, in the pages of her secret diary...
Full of Ruth Ozeki's signature humor and insight, A Tale for the Time Being deftly blurs the line between fact and fiction.
(From the back cover)
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