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A Tale For The Time Being by Ruth Ozeki. Booker Prize short list 2013

Ruth discovers a diary in a  Hello Kitty lunchbox washed up on the shore of her beach home. She suspects it is from the 2011 Tsunami that devastated Japan.  Within the diary Ruth is drawn into the lives of  a 16 year old girl and her great-grandmother, a 104 year old Buddhist nun. This is a fast read despite it being 465 P.

A note from Cathleen Mills: Sign up and then send a message to [email protected]. This will be a reading support email for all of us if we have questions or comments as we read and I can email you with ideas and check in with you about your reading. This makes reading longer novels helpful and keeps us connected between meetings. Reading like this is fun and Brain Food. If you have more questions about the book club before you sign up email me.