A Tale for the Time BeingNao lives in Tokyo. She is sixteen and has decided to write a diary before she kills herself. She has plenty of materialschool bullies, depressed parentsbut she particularly wants to chronicle the life of her great grandmother, Jiko, a Buddhist nun. Eventually, Nao thinks, her diary will find its reader. Ruth lives with her husband on the Pacific coast of Canada. A few months after the 2010 tsunami, she finds a Hello Kitty lunchbox washed up on the