A Tale for the Time Being

One sentence synopsis... A Japanese schoolgirl's diary washes ashore in Western Canada - thus begins an exploration of zen principles, biculturalism, suicide, fetish cafes, quantum mechanics, and ecological collapse... to name only a few of this book's many themes. .

Read it if you like... dark comedy, metafiction, or if you feel like dipping your toe into magical realism.

Dream casting... Aoi Okuyama (from Netflix's ‘Giri/Haji', which I also highly recommend) as the young, decisive, diarist Nao. Sandra Oh as Ruth, the writer who finds herself obsessed with the washed up diary.