Daniel Bjerre rated A Tale for the Time Being: 4 stars
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there’s only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates’ bullying, but before …
This was an excellent journey through past, present and a future vision of a post-apocalyptic utopia where technology blends into the background of a religious society. I enjoyed that this novel brought the Maya (who are very much still with us) to center stage. The stories characters in each millenium felt compelling and true. I was propelled through each triad of chapters wanting to know how it would all stich together in space and time. I was not disappointed.
