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A Tale for the Time Being
Literature · 2013
Ruth Ozeki
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Literature 2013

A Tale for the Time Being

diary as raftZen across the Pacificoceanic grief
Author
Ruth Ozeki
Year
2013
Region
United States
This work has been selected for the Aravien index based on editorial review.
Synopsis

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, she 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. Across the Pacific a novelist...

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Ruth Ozeki, 2013 — A Tale for the Time Being

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, she 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. Across the Pacific a novelist...

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Carries power forward while giving it a stronger literature expression.
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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, she 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. Across the Pacific a novelist...
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