A tale for the time being

Description:

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 all, she plans to document the life of her great-grandmother, a Buddhist nun who's lived more than a century. A diary is Nao's only solace. Across the Pacific a novelist living on a remote island discovers artifacts washed ashore in a Hello Kitty lunchbox and is pulled into Nao's drama and her unknown fate. (Bestseller)

subjects: Women authors,  Teenage girls,  Buddhist nuns,  Fiction,  FICTION / Literary,  New York Times reviewed,  Literary,  Roman,  Amerikanisches Englisch,  Skönlitteratur,  Girls,  Teenagers,  Large type books,  Diaries,  Zen Buddhism,  Bullying in schools,  Suicidal behavior,  Kamikaze pilots,  Fiction, psychological,  Young women, fiction,  Tokyo (japan), fiction,  British columbia, fiction,  Authors, fiction,  Nuns, fiction,  Fiction, fantasy, contemporary,  Fictional Work,  nyt:trade-fiction-paperback=2014-01-19,  New York Times bestseller,  Adolescentes,  Romans, nouvelles,  Nonnes bouddhistes,  Écrivaines,  General,  Women novelists

Places: Tokyo (Japan),  Vancouver Island (B.C.)