A brilliant, unforgettable novel from bestselling author Ruth
Ozeki, author of The Book of Form and Emptiness Finalist for the
Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award "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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