Ann Arbor Ypsilanti Reads Lecture: What Goes Around Comes Around: The Transpacific Gyre in Ruth Ozeki’s 'A Tale for the Time Being'

When

Thursday February 26, 2015: 7:00pm to 8:30pm  Add to Calendar /   Add to Google Calendar

Where

Traverwood Branch: Program Room

Description

U-M Professor of Japanese History Leslie Pincus discusses A Tale For The Time Being, the award-winning novel by bestselling author Ruth Ozeki, which is the book selection for Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti Reads 2015.

A Tale For the Time Being begins with Nao, a sixteen-year-old in Tokyo who has decided there’s only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates’ bullying. As Nao’s sixteen-year-old voice travels on the tsunami-heightened currents that cross the Pacific Ocean, Ozeki introduces her readers to a litany of scandalous social problems that give the lie to Japan’s much touted harmony and stability: bullying, the underage sex trade, unemployment and suicide, to name just a few.

Professor Pincus will discuss these issues exposed in the book and others that give insight to Japanese culture.