The Japan Times: Ozeki’s work reflects her complex identity → November 23, 2013 Laura Trippi “Ruth Ozeki’s recent novel, the 2013 Man Booker-shortlisted “A Tale For the Time Being,” is best described as a hybrid: a fictional masterpiece with footnotes and appendices like a research paper; a colorful scrawl of inventive creativity marked by scientific asides ranging from ocean gyres to quantum mechanics; a playful meta-fiction, the memoir Ozeki never wrote — an unforgettable Zen collusion of time and space housed within a paper shell.” — Kris Kosaka, The Japan Times November 23,2013The Japan TimesOzeki’s work reflects her complex identityKris Kosaka