![]() I figured maybe we’d be forced to think about “who’s really telling this story–Nao, Ruth Ozeki, or the Ruth of the story?” Think along the lines of the anime Princess Tutu: we’re at first led to believe it’s a typical ballet anime, but then we find out that the town is a story within a story, and we have to question who’s really in charge of the story. The fact that Ruth is also the name of the author and the character Ruth is also a novelist of Japanese descent only made that more interesting. ![]() A dual-perspective story, one in the past (Nao) and one in present-day (Ruth). The mention of the possibility of the diary being flotsam from the Great East Japan Earthquake only fueled my interest.Ģ. It’s a story set in Japan and I am trash for Japanese stories. Thinking back on when I started this book, I was super-excited about it because:ġ. ![]()
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