Inside she discovers old letters and a diary written in Japanese along with a few other mismatched items. On a seemingly ordinary day, a Hello Kitty lunchbox is washed ashore on Ruth’s small island in Canada. As the mystery of its contents unfolds, Ruth is pulled into the past, into Nao’s drama and her unknown fate, and forward into her own future. A diary is Nao’s only solace-and will touch lives in ways she can scarcely imagine.Īcross the Pacific, we meet Ruth, a novelist living on a remote island who discovers a collection of artifacts washed ashore in a Hello Kitty lunchbox-possibly debris from the devastating 2011 tsunami. But before she ends it all, Nao first plans to document the life of her great grandmother, a Buddhist nun who’s lived more than a century.
In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there’s only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates’ bullying. Summary: “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.”
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