A Tale for the Time Being : A Novel The Friday Project Limited then of two comically bumbling

then of two comically bumbling great-aunts

But the girls have learned from the mistakes of their father

even their weaknesses

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They married in 1998

A Tale for the Time Being : A Novel The Friday Project Limited then of two comically bumblingA brilliant, unforgettable novel from bestselling author Ruth Ozeki, author of The Book of Form and Emptiness Finalist for the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award "A time being is someone who lives in time, and that means you, and me, and every one of us who is, or was, or ever will be." In Tokyo, sixteen year old Nao has decided there's only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates' bullying. But before she ends it