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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.įull 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.Ī Tale for the Time Being features music by René Margraff from le mépris. A diary is Nao’s only solace-and will touch lives in ways she can scarcely imagine.Īcross 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. Though the move was voluntary, Ruth feels displaced and stifled on the island, and she finds unable to write. Ruth used to live in Manhattan but moved to the island to be with her husband, Oliver. She finds Nao ’s diary when it washes ashore on the island. 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. Ruth is a writer who lives in Whaletown on a remote island in Canada. In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there’s only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates’ bullying. “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.”

Ruth author a tale for the time being