02241nam a2200385 i 450000100060000000300090000600500170001500800410003201000170007302000190009002000180010903500130012704000380014004200080017804300210018605000250020708200150023208400140024710000190026124500450028024600300032526000450035530000230040050400570042352011400048052600080162065000280162865000280165665000280168465000240171265100280173665100380176465500130180285200400181545793BD-DhAAL20260518172633.0260518t20222013nyu      b    000 1 eng    a  2012039878  a 9781838856250  a9780670026630  a17518861  aDLCbengcDLCerdadDLCdBD-DhAAL  apcc  aa-ja---an-cn-bc00aPS3565.Z45bT35 201300a813.54223  aFIC0190001 aOzeki, Ruth L.12aA tale for the time being /cRuth Ozeki. 3aA tale for the time being  aEdinburgh :bViking ;bCanongate,c2022.  a455 pages ;c20 cm  aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 419-420).  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"--cProvided by publisher.8 aAAL 0aTeenage girlsvFiction. 0aBuddhist nunsvFiction. 0aWomen authorsvFiction. 7aFICTION / Literary. 0aTokyo (Japan)vFiction. 0aVancouver Island (B.C.)vFiction. 7aFiction.1 aAyesha Abed LibrarycGeneral Stacks