![]() She realizes that it is important to not dwell in the past since life is constantly changing-for Ruth, the past is represented by her memoir. ![]() As she reads more of the diary, Ruth, too, becomes influenced by Nao’s great-grandmother Jiko’s words on the importance of living each moment mindfully. She becomes worried for Nao as she reads about her troubles, and she frantically begins looking for Nao and her family online to see if they are alive-but she finds nothing concrete. Like Nao, Ruth has lived in Japan and America, so she understands both cultures. When Nao’s diary washes up on Ruth’s shore, it is a welcome distraction. Ruth now finds this project unpleasant, but she feels she has worked on it too long to abandon it. For the past 10 years, she has been working on a memoir about caring for her mother, who had Alzheimer’s. Though the move was voluntary, Ruth feels displaced and stifled on the island, and she finds unable to write. ![]() ![]() Ruth used to live in Manhattan but moved to the island to be with her husband, Oliver. She finds Nao’s diary when it washes ashore on the island. Ruth is a writer who lives in Whaletown on a remote island in Canada. Part III, Chapter 7: Haruki #1’s Secret French Diary.Part II, Chapter 13: Haruki #1’s Letters. ![]()
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