"A Tale for the Time Being is a novel by Ruth L. Ozeki narrated by two characters, a sixteen-year-old Japanese American girl in Tokyo who keeps a diary, and a Japanese American writer living on an island off British Columbia who finds the diary washed up on shore some time after the 2011 tsunami that devastated Japan."@en . "2012-39878" . "978-0-670-02663-0" . "A Tale for the Time Being"@en . "432"^^ . "813.54" . . . "841015817" .