TY - BOOK AU - Ozeki,Ruth TI - The face: a time code T2 - The face series SN - 9781632060525 AV - PS3565.Z45 Z46 2016 U1 - 813.54092 23 PY - 2016/// CY - Brooklyn, New York PB - Restless Books KW - Ozeki, Ruth, KW - Novelists KW - Biography KW - Zen priests KW - fast KW - Autobiographies KW - Biographies KW - lcgft KW - rvmgf N2 - What did your face look like before your parents were born? In The Face: A Time Code, bestselling author and Zen Buddhist priest Ruth Ozeki recounts, in moment-to-moment detail, a profound encounter with memory and the mirror. Ozeki challenges herself to spend three hours gazing into her own reflection, recording her thoughts and noticing every possible detail. Those solitary hours open up a lifetime's worth of meditations on race, aging, family, death, the body, self-doubt and, finally, acceptance. Ozeki paints an intimate and rich portrait of life as told through a face ER -