Love to talk about books? Join us for Books Sandwiched In, now at the Larry R. Jackson Branch Library.  The group meets in the Jackson Branch Library Meeting Room on the first Tuesday of each month at 12:15 p.m.  

Our March title is A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki.

In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there’s only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates’ bullying. But before she ends it all, Nao first plans to document the life of her great grandmother, a Buddhist nun who’s lived more than a century. A diary is Nao’s only solace—and will touch lives in ways she can scarcely imagine. Across the Pacific, we meet Ruth, a novelist living on a remote island who discovers a collection of artifacts washed ashore in a Hello Kitty lunchbox—possibly debris from the devastating 2011 tsunami. As the mystery of its contents unfolds, Ruth is pulled into the past, into Nao’s drama and her unknown fate, and forward into her own future.

Print copies WILL NOT be available for purchase.

Reserve a copy on the Lakeland Public Library’s Online Catalog.

Reserve a digital copy on Libby or Hoopla.

A valid Polk County library card and PIN are required to reserve items through the Online Catalog and for access to digital resources.

Questions? Contact Danielle at Danielle.Daniels@lakelandgov.net or at 863-834-4291.