My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki

My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki

A modern-day take on Upton Sinclair's The Jungle With reality, humor, and a message about corporate greed, veteran filmmaker Ruth Ozeki weaves together the story of two women a world apart. Jane, a struggling filmmaker in New York, is given her big break, a chance to travel through the United States to produce a Japanese television program sponsored by an American meat-exporting business. But along the way, she discovers some unsavory truths about love, honor, and a particularly damaging hormone called DES that wreaks havoc with her uterus. Meanwhile, Akiko, a painfully thin Japanese woman struggling with bulimia, is being pressured by her child-craving husband to put some meat on her bones, literally. How Jane's and Akiko's lives intersect in wacky cross-cultural collisions provides romance, humor, intrigue, and even a muckraking message about questionable meat and the homogenization of America. This is the perfect fiction companion to The Omnivore's Dilemma and In Defense of Food.

Ozeki is a deeply intelligent and humane writer -- Alice Sebold, author of Lovely Bones
One of my favourite novelists -- Junot Díaz
There are not many novels that can justify the label "extraordinary".. It grapples with a quite astonishing pantheon of themes... The writing is witty, intelligent and passionate * * Independent * *
Smart, funny, irreverent * * Guardian * *
A joy to read * * Elle * *
Ozeki offers a remarkably fresh view of the rocky road many women travel to love and motherhood * * Glamour * *
Romance, agri-business, self-discovery, cross-cultural misunderstanding - it takes a talent like Ruth Ozeki's to blend all these ingredients beautifully together. My Year of Meats is a sensitive and compelling portrait of two modern women -- Arthur Golden, author of Memoirs of a Geisha
A meaty novel about relationships, cultural boundaries and the beef industry . . . Ruth Ozeki masks a deeper purpose with a light tone . . . My Year of Meats is delightful in many ways -- Jane Smiley
A wildly entertaining story that addresses a smorgasbord of social issues * * Chicago Tribune * *
Character gems and exquisite plotting make this a treasure to read * * Kirkus Reviews * *
Wonderfully wild and bracing... A feast that leaves you hungry for whatever Ozeki cooks up next * * Newsweek * *

Ruth Ozeki is a novelist, filmmaker and Zen Buddhist priest. She is the author of The Book of Form and Emptiness which won the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2022, My Year of Meats, All Over Creation and A Tale for the Time Being, which was shortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize and translated into 28 languages. Ozeki has also written a short memoir, The Face: A Time Code. She is affiliated with the Everyday Zen Foundation and lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, where she teaches creative writing at Smith College and is the Grace Jarcho Ross 1933 Professor of Humanities.

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ISBN 13	9781782111146
ISBN 10	178211114X
Title	My Year of Meats
Author	Ruth Ozeki
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Canongate Books
Year published	2013-08-01
Number of pages	448
Prizes	Winner of Kiriyama Prize 1998, Winner of Imus/Barnes & Noble American Book Award 1998
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.