I’ve discovered another wonderful new author: Ruth Ozeki.
This month’s reading choice comes from a Book on Tape I loved so
much, I had to buy in book form.
The narrator switches from Nao, a Japanese-American teenage girl
living in Tokyo to Ruth, an older woman, also of Japanese extraction living on
a remote island in the Pacific Northwest. Ruth, by chance, finds Nao’s diary
washed up on the beach near her home.
We join Ruth in her reading of the diary and follow Nao’s
heartbreaking struggle to navigate her life. The novel gracefully and
seamlessly covers themes of coming of age, bullying, suicide, marriage, quantum
physics and unanswered questions of mystical connection.
I didn’t want this book to end and can’t wait to read another by Ozeki.
I’ve been so lucky in my book selections this year.
Highly recommend.
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