{"product_id":"a-tale-for-the-time-being","title":"A Tale for the Time Being","description":"A beautifully interwoven novel about magic and loss and the incomprehensible threads that connect our lives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNao lives in Tokyo. She is sixteen, and has decided to write a diary before she kills herself. She has plenty of material - school bullies, depressed parents - but she particularly wants to chronicle the life of her great-grandmother, Jiko, a Buddhist nun. Eventually, Nao thinks, her diary will find its reader.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRuth lives with her husband on the Pacific coast of Canada. A few months after the 2010 tsunami, she finds a Hello Kitty lunchbox washed up on the shore. It contains a diary.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is the simple story of a girl, her great grandmother and the novelist who becomes enthralled with their tale.  And it is much much more.","brand":"Ruth Ozeki","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43516776775741,"sku":null,"price":23.74,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/7689\/2989\/files\/9781925498950.jpg?v=1787572788","url":"https:\/\/www.palmleaf.com.au\/products\/a-tale-for-the-time-being","provider":"Palmleaf","version":"1.0","type":"link"}