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.

Ruth Ozeki is a novelist and filmmaker who has received numerous honors in both fields. Her first novel, My Year of Meats, won the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Award, the Imus/Barnes & Noble American Book Award, and the World Cookbook Awards' Special Jury Prize in Versailles. All Over Creation was a New York Times Notable Book, as well as the American Book Prize and the WILLA Literary Award for Contemporary Fiction in 2004. The Independent called her award-winning novels as witty, clever, and passionate, while the Chicago Tribune praised them for their sharp and lively humor, sensuous sexuality, and energetic pizzazz. She began her media career as a film art director, then moved on to directing television documentaries before launching her own production company, Body of Communication, which won the New Visions Award at the San Francisco Film Festival. She is a regular lecturer on college and university campuses and is a member of the Asian American Literary Review's advisory editorial board.

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ISBN 13	9780140280463
ISBN 10	0140280464
Title	My Year of Meats
Author	Ruth Ozeki
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published	1999-03-01
Number of pages	400
Prizes	Winner of Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Award.
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.