Greetings from Three Lives & Company

 A reminder:  tomorrow night, Thursday, 1 May, at 7p, Ruth Ozeki will be at Three Lives, in conversation with local novelist, Ellis Avery, about her latest novel, A Tale for the Time Being.

Ruth Ozeki

A Tale for the Time Being

Thursday, 1 May

7.00pm

in Conversation with Ellis Avery

Winner of the L.A. Times Book Prize and short-listed for both the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, A Tale for the Time Being is a novel about a Japanese sixteen-year old, Nao, and the woman, Ruth Ozeki, who discovers Nao's diary washed up on her island in British Columbia. A shimmering, dynamic, and beautiful novel, and a staff favorite here at Three Lives.

~ ~ Ozeki’s profound affection for her characters makes A Tale for the Time Being

as emotionally engaging as it is intellectually provocative. ~ The Washington Post

~ ~ As we read Nao’s story and the story of Ozeki’s reading of it, as we go back and

forth between the text and the notes, time expands for us. It opens up onto something

resembling narrative eternity . . . page after page, slowly unfolding. And what a

beautiful effect that is for a novel to create. ~ Alan Cheuse, All Things Considered

~ ~ A delightful yet sometimes harrowing novel . . . Ozeki takes on big themes . . . all

drawn into the stories of two ‘time beings,’ Ruth and Nao, whose own fates are

inextricably bound. ~ The New York Times Book Review

Ellis Avery, a West Village resident, is the author of the novels The Last Nude and The Teahouse Fire.

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