One diary is in French but the other - disguised as a Proust novel - is in a teenager’s purple-pen rounded English cursive. Well-wrapped to protect it from water damage, the package contains two diaries, some letters, and an old watch, all inside a Hello Kitty lunchbox. They live on a small Canadian island, and one day a package washes up on the beach - Ruth presumes from the 2011 Japanese tsunami. One of the two lead characters is - like the author - a writer called Ruth who has a husband called Oliver. I’m leading with that because the synopsis of this book would not have induced me to read it. That is how much I love the narrative voice of Nao Yasutani. I got it for her only on the basis of the short excerpt NetGalley provided in their “Buzz Books” sampler. Here is a book I purchased for my mother’s birthday although I had not read it and I had read very few if any reviews of it at the time of purchase and I didn’t read it first.
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