Written in English
Booker 2013 · Shortlist
A Tale for the Time Being
A Tale for the Time Being
Ruth Ozeki · 57 when first published
Novel · 420 pages · Family
AI-generated summary:A lonely, bullied sixteen-year-old in Tokyo keeps a diary before she plans to die; across the Pacific, a novelist on an island off British Columbia finds it washed up in a Hello Kitty lunchbox.