
Slightly autobiographical, the book follows Ruth, an author facing some intense writer’s block that extends when she discovers a journal washed up on her beach somewhere in the Pacific Northwest. With star-studded reviews from publications like t he New York Times and authors like Barbara Kingsolver, “A Tale for the Time Being” holds so much potential - potential it does not fulfill.


Personally, I think it is very clear why “ A Tale for the Time Being ” by Ruth Ozeki did not win the Booker Prize.
