This Week in Reading A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki In Ruth Ozeki’s novel, A Tale for the Time Being, the protagonist— a writer also named Ruth— discovers a diary in a plastic freezer bag washed up on a northwest beach. The diary belongs to Nao, a fifteen-year-old Japanese girl born in California who recently moved back to Japan. The book alternates between passages from Nao’s diary, and Ruth’s experience reading it on the other side of the Pacific.
now, now, now
now, now, now
now, now, now
This Week in Reading A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki In Ruth Ozeki’s novel, A Tale for the Time Being, the protagonist— a writer also named Ruth— discovers a diary in a plastic freezer bag washed up on a northwest beach. The diary belongs to Nao, a fifteen-year-old Japanese girl born in California who recently moved back to Japan. The book alternates between passages from Nao’s diary, and Ruth’s experience reading it on the other side of the Pacific.