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This is an extraordinary novel about a courageous young woman who is torn apart by loneliness, time, and finally a tsunami. Ruth picked up a diary like a "drift bottle" on the coast, which contained hopes and dreams. Reading page by page, she discovered that everything could be traced back to a legendary story written by a little Japanese girl Nao Yasutani about herself and her 104-year-old great-grandmother in the maid restaurant. This diary was taken away by the waves after the tsunami, and eventually traveled across the ocean to Canada, which is far away on the other side of the ocean. In the diary, a beautiful summer spent by Nao and her grandmother at the beach is slowly unfolded. Nao is like a modern Holden Caulfield. With her magnanimous and witty tone of voice, she covers youth, pop culture, family, suicide, 911, Zen, kamikazes... In the eyes of a 16-year-old girl.