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A tale for the time being / Ruth Ozeki.
"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 has decided there's only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates' bullying. 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. A diary is Nao's only solace-- and will touch lives in ways she can scarcely imagine. Across 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. 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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780670067046
- ISBN: 9780670026630 (hc.)
- ISBN: 0670026638 (hc.)
- Physical Description: 422 p. ; 24 cm.
- Publisher: New York : Viking, c2013.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [419]-420). |
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| Subject: | Teenage girls > Fiction. Memory > Fiction. Authorship > Fiction. Buddhist nuns > Fiction. Women authors > Fiction. Tokyo (Japan) > Fiction. Vancouver Island (B.C.) > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Psychological fiction. Diary fiction. |
Available copies
- 14 of 14 copies available at Sitka.
- 1 of 1 copy available at Burns Lake Public Library. (Show preferred library)
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Burns Lake Public Library | AF OZE (Text) | 35198000536400 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Bowen Island Public Library | F OZE (Text) | 30947000450102 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Bren Del Win Centennial Library | F Ozeki (Text) | 36320000007251 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Fernie Heritage Library | FIC OZE (Text) | 35136000386004 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Fort St. John Public Library | AF OZE (Text) | 35211000207227 | ADULT Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Galiano Island Community Library | FIC OZE (Text) | 33127000079253 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Kimberley Public Library | F OZE (Text) | 35137000053719 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Mayne Island Reading Centre | OZE (Text) | 33128000080473 | Fiction - Hardcover | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Portage la Prairie Regional Library | AF OZE (Text) | 3675000173881 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Prince Rupert Library | Ozek (Text) | 33294001852060 | Adult Fiction - Second Floor | Volume hold | Available | - |
