TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ozeki, Ruth, 
TI  - A Tale for the time being
SN  - 9780143124870
AV  - 813.54 Oz3 c2013 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - New York
PB  - Penguin Group
KW  - Teenage girls
KW  - FICTION
KW  - Buddhist nuns
KW  - Women authors
KW  - Tokyo (Japan)
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Vancouver Island (B.C.)
N1  - Includes bibliography
N2  -   "A time being is someone who lives in time, and that means you, and me, and every one of us who is, or was, or ever will be." In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there`s only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates` bullying. But before she ends it all, Nao first plans to document the life of her great grandmother, a Buddhist nun who`s lived more than a century. A diary is Nao`s only solace--and will touch lives in ways she can scarcely imagine. Across the Pacific, we meet Ruth, a novelist living on a remote island who discovers a collection of artifacts washed ashore in a Hello Kitty lunchbox--possibly debris from the devastating 2011 tsunami. As the mystery of its contents unfolds, Ruth is pulled into the past, into Nao`s drama and her unknown fate, and forward into her own future. Full of Ozeki`s signature humor and deeply engaged with the relationship between writer and reader, past and present, fact and fiction, quantum physics, history, and myth, A Tale for the Time Being is a brilliantly inventive, beguiling story of our shared humanity and the search for home"--
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