This novel is so beautiful, funny, so intentionally crafted, so smart, and somehow both spiritually uplifting and spiritually heartbreaking...

Contains big ideas, including Zen Buddhism, internet selfhood and the consequences of anonymity, metafiction, quantum physics, WWII kamikaze pilots, environmental art, and on and on...

After reading this, I purchased everything Ruth Ozeki has ever written. I want to read everything born from her mind!