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An excellent, memorable book from best-selling writer Ruth Ozeki—shortlisted for the Booker Award “A time being is somebody who lives in time, and which means you, and me, and every one people who is, or was, or ever may be.” In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has determined there’s just one escape from her painful loneliness and her classmates’ intimidation. But before she stops everything, Nao first ideas to record the life span of her great-grandmother, a Buddhist nun who’s existed greater than a millennium. A journal is Nao’s just solace—and may touch lives with techniques she could hardly envision. Over the Pacific, we fulfill Ruth, a novelist living on a remote island who finds an accumulation of items washed ashore in a Hello Kitty lunchbox—possibly dirt in the disastrous 2011 tsunami.