![]() “There’s powerful magic here … Ozeki is unusually patient with her characters, even the rebarbative ones, and she is able to record the subtle peculiarities of other classes of beings that more overeager writers would probably miss … Ozeki gives us a metaphor for our very own American consumption disorder, our love-hate relationship with the stuff we produce and can’t let go of” ![]() No one writes quite like Ruth Ozeki and The Book of Form and Emptiness is a triumph” “Heart-breaking and heart-healing – a book to not only keep us absorbed but also to help us think and love and live and listen. ” The Book of Form and Emptiness is a big, polyphonic, often comic, magical-realist collage of a novel that attempts to interrogate the most pressing issues of the age … at its heart is a compelling story of human connection and the redemptive power of art … Ozeki is a talented storyteller” ![]()
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