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A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth L Ozeki
Category: Fiction
A brilliant, unforgettable novel from bestselling author Ruth Ozeki--shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award ""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."" In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao ...Show more
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
Category: Fiction
Nao lives in Tokyo. She is sixteen, and has decided to write a diary before she kills herself. She has plenty of material - school bullies, depressed parents - but she particularly wants to chronicle the life of her great-grandmother, Jiko, a Buddhist nun. And eventually, Nao thinks, her diary will find ...Show more
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
*PRE-ORDER RUTH OZEKI'S NEW NOVEL, THE BOOK OF FORM AND EMPTINESS, TODAY*In the wake of the 2011 tsunami, Ruth discovers a Hello Kitty lunchbox washed up on the shore of her beach home in British Columbia. Within it lies a diary that expresses the hopes, heartbreak and dreams of a young girl desperate f ...Show more
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
Category: Fiction
Nao lives in Tokyo. She is sixteen, and has decided to write a diary before she kills herself. She has plenty of material - school bullies, depressed parents - but she particularly wants to chronicle the life of her great-grandmother, Jiko, a Buddhist nun. Eventually, Nao thinks, her diary will find its ...Show more
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013.'Hi! My name is Nao, and I am a time being. Do you know what a time being is? Well, if you give me a moment, I will tell you.'Ruth discovers a Hello Kitty lunchbox washed up on the shore of her beach home. Within it lies a diary that expresses the hopes and drea ...Show more
All Over Creation by Ruth L. Ozeki
Category: Fiction
Meet Yumi Fuller. A Japanese American prodigal daughter, Yumi - aka Yummy - is returning home to the Idaho potato farm she ran away from twenty-five years earlier. Then a freewheeling hippie chick, Yumi is now a (semi) responsible parent and a professor with a side gig selling lava lots in Hawaii. But c ...Show more
All Over Creation by Ruth L. Ozeki
Category: Fiction
A beautifully written literary soap opera, that is utterly compelling and unputdownable.With a lifetime of careful nurturing of potatoes and seeds behind them, Lloyd Fuller and his Japanese wife, Momoko, have begun to feel the ravages of time. Their only daughter, Yumi, left home twenty-five years ago, ...Show more
All Over Creation by Ruth Ozeki
Category: Fiction
Yumi Fuller hasn't set foot in Liberty Falls, Idaho - heart of the potato-farming industry - since she ran away at age fifteen. Twenty-five years later, the prodigal daughter returns to confront her dying parents, her best friend and her conflicted past, and finds herself caught up in an altogether new ...Show more
My Year of Meat by Ruth L Ozeki
Category: Fiction
Jane, a struggling filmmaker, is producing a piece sponsored by the American meat exporting business, while Akiko's child-craving husband is pressuring her to put some meat on her bones--literally.
My Year of Meat by Ruth Ozeki
Category: Fiction
'I had started my year as a documentarian. I wanted to tell the truth, to effect change, to make a difference. And up to a point, I had succeeded . . . I am haunted by all the things - big things and little things - that threaten to slip through the cracks, untold, out of history.' In a single, eye-open ...Show more
My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki
Category: Fiction
A modern-day take on Upton Sinclair's The Jungle With reality, humor, and a message about corporate greed, veteran filmmaker Ruth Ozeki weaves together the story of two women a world apart. Jane, a struggling filmmaker in New York, is given her big break, a chance to travel through the United States to ...Show more