Ruth Ozeki's Novel A Tale for the Time Being

The Leonard Lopate Show | Jun 28, 2013

Ruth Ozeki talks about her novel, A Tale for the Time Being. It connects a 16-year-old in Tokyo with a novelist living on a remote island who discovers a collection of artifacts washed ashore in a Hello Kitty lunchbox—possibly debris from the devastating 2011 tsunami.

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