A Tale for the Time Being
by Ruth Ozeki
"A diary washes ashore in Canada. Inside: a Tokyo schoolgirl's last words?"
Novelist Ruth finds a Hello Kitty lunchbox on a British Columbia beach containing the diary of Nao, a bullied Tokyo teenager chronicling her 104-year-old great-grandmother, a Buddhist nun. Time, quantum physics and radical compassion entwine across the Pacific.
Worth knowing
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Ozeki is also an ordained Zen Buddhist priest.
