![]() Born in Japan but raised in the states, Nao returns to Japan after her father loses his job in Silicon Valley. The diary was written by a young girl named Naoko Yasutani, or "Nao" for short. Ruth opens the volume, and is shocked to find a diary written with electric pink gel pen. ![]() As they peel away the barnacles, they find- protected under several layers of plastic- a Hello Kitty lunchbox that holds many items, including a copy of Proust's In Search of Lost Time in the original French. She and her husband first suspect that the bundle is debris from the recent tsunami. You see, it's about a Japanese-American novelist named Ruth, who picks up what appears to be sea trash while walking on a beach in British Columbia. In her new novel, A Tale for the Time Being, Ozeki is just toying with us. ![]() In Ruth Ozeki's first two books, her protagonists were strong Japanese-American women, and on book tours, she was often asked if they were based on herself. ![]()
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