doug reviewed A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there’s only one escape from her aching loneliness and …
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4 stars
Having lived in B.C. and Tokyo, a lot in this book was quite familiar to me. It was comfortable reading. There's some beautiful prose in parts. She succeeds in both epistolary and magical realism, two devices I'm quite particular about. The former I knew of beforehand, the latter was a (not unpleasant) surprise.