She too has been left traumatized by the sudden death of her husband and she can’t bear to give things up. This means huge amounts of print media are delivered to their house. Annabelle transfers to working from home so that she can better look after him. As the novel progresses, the job becomes more and more obsolete.īenny Oh suffers severe psychological trauma after the death of his father. Annabelle is a “clipper.” She spends her days sorting through newsprint, literally cutting and pasting important stories for the company she works for: a news aggregation service. Husband and father, Kenji, was run over by a chicken truck, after falling into a drug-addled sleep in the alleyway beside the family house.Īs the book opens, print media is still a thing. The Book of Form & Emptiness focuses primarily on mother and son duo, Annabelle and Benny Oh. I exaggerate when I say this book suggests “all possessions are rubbish,” but Ozeki is a Zen Buddhist priest, one of the characters in the book is a Zen Buddhist priest, AND said priest has written a book in the story called “Tidy Magic.” Some thoughts on the futility of buying stuff were inevitable. What Is The Book of Form & Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki? This might be because I’ve reached one year shy of my half-century, it might be that all three of my children have reached double digits (well, nearly), or it might be because of the meandering and beguiling, “all possessions are rubbish,” tale told in The Book of Form & Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki. I’ve been having something of an existential crisis in recent weeks.
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