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Ruth Ozeki - The Book of Form and Emptiness

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Ruth Ozeki is a filmmaker, Zen Buddhist priest and the author of several novels including “A Tale for the Time Being,” which was a finalist for the 2013 Booker Prize.

Her latest, “The Book of Form and Emptiness,” is an inventive novel about loss, growing up, and our relationship with things.

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