Cuir crìoch air an abairt a leanas: A Tale for the Time Being is a metafictional novel by Ruth Ozeki narrated by two characters, a sixteen-year-old Japanese American girl living in Tokyo who keeps a diary, and a Japanese American writer living on an island off the coast of the British Columbia who finds the diary of the young woman washed ashore some time after the
2011 tsunami a sgrios Iapan.