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020			_a 9781838856250
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050	0	0	_aPS3565.Z45 _bT35 2013
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100	1		_aOzeki, Ruth L. _928492
245	1	2	_aA tale for the time being / _cRuth Ozeki.
246		3	_aA tale for the time being
260			_aEdinburgh : _bViking ; _bCanongate, _c2022.
300			_a455 pages ; _c20 cm
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 419-420).
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"-- _cProvided by publisher.
526	8		_aAAL
650		0	_aTeenage girls _vFiction. _95887
650		0	_aBuddhist nuns _vFiction. _960837
650		0	_aWomen authors _vFiction. _960838
650		7	_aFICTION / Literary.
651		0	_aTokyo (Japan) _vFiction. _96187
651		0	_aVancouver Island (B.C.) _vFiction. _960839
655		7	_aFiction.
852	1		_aAyesha Abed Library _cGeneral Stacks
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