A Tale for the Time Being: A Novel by Ruth Ozeki - copyright 2013

New York New York: Penguin Books, copyright 2013. oversize paperback not stated. Paperback. Good +. Jim tierney. to the United States with paper firm responsible sources is an oversize paperback book cover is glossy it is been lightly read a couple times the spine is intact in the interior the book is unmarked and there are no inscriptions...I really enjoyed this book...In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided theres 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 whos lived more than a century. A diary is Naos only solaceand 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 lunchboxpossibly debris from the devastating 2011 tsunami. As the mystery of its contents unfolds, Ruth is pulled into the past, into Naos drama and her unknown fate, and forward into her own future. Full of Ozekis 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....Used books are the "green" way to read and reduce your carbon footprint, we also try to reuse packing materials whenever possible keeping them out of landfills sooner rather than later.....This will be shipped through United States Post via media mail to fulfill your order, keeping it all in the Postal Family......, it comes from the Los Angeles Area at whatever PO is closest to my errands or my life that day since I carefully pack your book then have to hop on the Vespa and visit the PO to have it placed in our mail system..teenage girls, Buddhist nuns, women authors, Tokyo, Vancouver Island British Columbia fiction Ruth Ozeki.--.also by purchasing multiple books can save you significantly on shipping costs through Biblio'

very interesting I couldn't put it down.