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A tale for the time being meaning5/20/2023 ![]() ![]() The journal belongs to Nao Yasutani, a Japanese schoolgirl who struggles with suicidal ideation in response to her similarly minded father and the acute bullying she faces from her classmates.Īs Ruth staggers her reading so that she can live Nao’s life in accordance to time, she scours the internet for any sort of indication that Nao existed at all, that the journal is not simply a hallucination, a tear in the many universes. Slightly autobiographical, the book follows Ruth, an author facing some intense writer’s block that extends when she discovers a journal washed up on her beach somewhere in the Pacific Northwest. With star-studded reviews from publications like t he New York Times and authors like Barbara Kingsolver, “A Tale for the Time Being” holds so much potential - potential it does not fulfill. Personally, I think it is very clear why “ A Tale for the Time Being ” by Ruth Ozeki did not win the Booker Prize. ![]()
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