Nao’s lively voice, by turns breezy, petulant, funny, sad and teenage-girl wise, reaches the reader in the pages of her diary, which, as Ruth Ozeki begins to fold and pleat her intricate parable of a novel, washes ashore, safe in a Hello Kitty lunchbox, on a small Canadian island off the coast of British Columbia. The most tangible character in “A Tale for the Time Being” is a 16-year-old Japanese girl named Nao who never makes an appearance in the flesh.
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