loppear 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 …
Nearly great.
4 stars
Interwoven overlapping generational threads of suicide, conscience, violence of school kids and world wars, with a Buddhist tinge of questioning impermanence and cause. The author's character is a little loud at times and the ending is optional.