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245	1		_aA Tale for the time being / _cRuth Ozeki.
100			_aOzeki, Ruth, _eauthor
260			_aNew York : _bPenguin Group, _cc2013.
300			_a422 pages:
300			_c21 cm
500			_aIncludes bibliography
020			_a9780143124870
650			_aTeenage girls _vFICTION
650			_aBuddhist nuns _vFICTION
650			_aWomen authors _vFICTION
651			_aTokyo (Japan) _vFiction
651			_aVancouver Island (B.C.) _vFiction
944			_aFIC
050			_a813.54 Oz3 c2013
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953			_pSH0370
546			_ain English
953			_cSenior High School Library
520			_a "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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336			_atext
337			_aunmediated
338			_avolume
942			_2lcc _cBK _ajderpo _b2019-03-04 13:11:59 _djderpo _e2019-08-01 08:59:22
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