
Naoko's nickname is Nao, Nao, get it? She's clearly a creature of time as are all of us, she both assures and warns us.

The time being means for our current days and also refers to one of the main characters in the book, a suicidal 16-year-old Japanese schoolgirl named Naoko. Alan Cheuse has this review.ĪLAN CHEUSE, BYLINE: "A Tale for the Time Being" offers a huge pun in its title.


And finally this hour, a new novel that tells the story of two lives intersecting across an ocean after the recent tsunami in Japan.
