A freezer bag containing a precious diary finds its own way across the Pacific. Crows caw Cassandra-like about imminent danger or snatch an ornament off a character’s head and fly away in a direction that leads that character to her destiny. Everything in her universe, down to a windowpane and a widget, has a psyche and a certain amount of agency and can communicate, if only with the few human beings granted the power to understand them. Adept at magical realist fiction, Ozeki ensouls the world. I mean that she endows objects and animals with anima, the breath of life. I don’t mean that she produces graphic novels or manga or anime, although her work does have the fairy-tale feel of some anime movies. The Japanese American novelist Ruth Ozeki is an animator. THE BOOK OF FORM AND EMPTINESS By Ruth Ozeki
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