A Tale for the Time Being

I loved this book for various reasons. I plan on re-reading it and I hardly ever re-read books. It's a story about a young bullied girl in Japan who starts writing a journal. This story is interwoven with the story about the woman who finds the journal as it washes ashore on the coast of an island near British Columbia. Even within these two stories are stories about a WWII kamikaze pilot and a Buddhist nun. I found the stories well written and intriguing enough that I never really lost interest. The novel does take a turn towards magical realism towards the end. I anticipate that some readers will lose interest at that point if that's not your "thing", but that portion of the story is precisely why I want to re-read it. It's a meditative, yet entertaining, story. It's hard to explain why I loved it so much, but I highly recommend it!