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Apr

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An evening with Ruth Ozeki, moderated by Linda Solomon

by VO 2013 SALON SERIES

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Tue, Apr 16, 2013, 7:00 PM PDT

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The Anza Club

3 W. 8th Ave

V5Y 1M8

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The Vancouver Observer invites you to an engaging, interactive open dialogue and reading of Ruth Ozeki's brilliant new book, "A Tale for the Time Being".

Price: $20

Books for sale at event by Book Warehouse. Cash bar.


FREE for Vancouver Observer monthly subscribers.

What happens when a tsunami shatters a country and the debris washing up on a foreign shore reveals a story so compelling it has the power to change your life?

Please join me for a very special occasion. The official book launch of Ruth Ozeki's New York Times bestselling novel, "A Tale for the Time Being."

This intimate evening will bring one of Canada's most beloved authors here to talk with us about the central problems of being in the age of the Internet when the poison of bullies is as destructive as the power of relationships is redemptive.

Funny and insightful, Ruth will also discuss the relationship between writing the book and ordaining as a Zen priest, how she overcame writer's block, and what it's like to live between two profoundly different cultures.

The Independent calls Tale for the Time Being "funny, heartbreaking, moving and profound", writing that:

"The central premise of A Tale for the Time Being is a fantastic narrative hook: while out walking on the beach one day in remote Northwestern Canada, a struggling writer called Ruth finds a Hello Kitty lunchbox wrapped in an airtight freezer bag. Inside are a diary, a collection of Japanese letters and an old watch. On reading the diary, Ruth discovers that it belongs to a 16-year-old Japanese schoolgirl called Nao, writing a decade previously in Tokyo..."



About Ruth Ozeki
Ruth’s first novel, My Year of Meats, was published in 1998 by Viking Penguin, won the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Award, the Imus/Barnes and Noble American Book Award, and a Special Jury Prize of the World Cookbook Awards in Versailles. Her second novel, All Over Creation (Viking Penguin, 2003) shifts the focus from meat to potatoes in a story of a family farmer. A New York Times Notable Book, All Over Creation is the recipient of a 2004 American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation, as well as the Willa Literary Award for Contemporary Fiction.

A frequent speaker on college and university campuses, Ruth currently divides her time between New York City and British Columbia, where she lives with her husband, artist, Oliver Kellhammer. She serves on the advisory editorial board of the Asian American Literary Review and on the Creative Advisory Council of Hedgebrook. She practices Zen Buddhism with Zoketsu Norman Fischer, and is the editor of the Everyday Zen website. She was ordained as a Soto Zen priest in June, 2010.

About The Vancouver Observer

The Vancouver Observer reports stories that inform, invite, inspire, and give voice to diverse perspectives to engage vital conversations. Winner of the 2012 Canadian Journalism Foundation Excellence in Journalism Award, and a 2010 Canadian Online Publishing Award for "Best Online-Only Articles," The Vancouver Observer's platform has global reach and impact, person by person, reflective of the landscape of connectedness.

About Linda Solomon

Linda is founder, editor-in-chief and publisher of The Vancouver Observer.

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