A review by duriangrey
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki

4.0

Slow at the beginning but gets better and better as you go. It deals with heavy themes of suicide and abuse, so a warning on that, and can also get creepy when you're reading it at night. As trippy as it can be, at many moments it is very thoughtful, often poetic and soothing. The appendix was the first explanation of schrödinger's cat that has helped me to understand (at last) a bit of the experiment's significance. i loved the interplay of the characters' different cultural and educational backgrounds in a small town environment, and the crazy whirl of quantum physics, philosophy and zen ideas. I missed a lot of ideas folded into the references and writing, to be sure, so this is definitely on the to reread list to process again and pick up new layers of meaning.