Magical Realism
by Ruth Ozeki
A diary washes ashore in British Columbia, written by Nao, a sixteen-year-old Tokyo girl contemplating suicide, and discovered by Ruth, a novelist on a remote island. As Ruth reads Nao's account of bullying, her great-uncle's WWII kamikaze diary, and Buddhist philosophy, the boundaries between reader and writer, past and present, collapse. Ozeki weaves quantum physics, Zen Buddhism, and the 2011 tsunami into a profound meditation on time, connection, and existence.
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