'' A Tale for the Time Being '' is a metafictional novel by Ruth Ozeki narrated by two characters , a sixteen-year-old Japanese American girl in Tokyo who keeps a diary , and a Japanese American writer living on an island off British Columbia who finds the diary washed up on shore some time after the 2011 tsunami that devastated Japan
2011 tsunami
2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami
A Tale for the Time Being