All Over Creation

Name: All Over Creation
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Ruth Ozeki
ISBN: 9781455103713

Author: Ruth Ozeki

Narrator: Anna Fields

Unabridged: 15 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 01/01/2007

Categories: Fiction

Synopsis

Yumi Fuller is a rebellious daughter returning to her familys Idaho potato farm to help her ailing parents who finds herself in a firestorm over genetically engineered spuds in this tale of family, food, and corporate greed. Blackstone Audie Award Winner

About Ruth Ozeki

Ruth Ozeki is a filmmaker and novelist who has won major awards in both fields. Her
first novel, My Year of Meats, won
the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Award, the Imus/Barnes & Noble American Book Award,
and a Special Jury Prize of the World Cookbook Awards in Versailles. All Over Creation was a New York Times
Notable Book and winner of the American Book Award, as well as the 2004 WILLA
Literary Award for Contemporary Fiction. Her award-winning novels have been
described as â€œwitty, intelligent, and passionateâ€ by the Independent, and as possessing â€œshrewd and playful humor, luscious
sexiness, and kinetic pizzazzâ€ by the Chicago
Tribune. She began her media career as an art director in film, switched to
directing television documentaries, and then began making her own films, of which
Body of Correspondence won the New
Visions Award at the San Francisco Film Festival. A frequent speaker on college
and university campuses, she serves on the advisory editorial board of the Asian American Literary Review.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Maria Hill

Well as an Irish woman how could I not like a book about the importance of family and farming potatoes? As an undergraduate of Biochemistry in 2001, completing my Ph.D. in Molecular Biology in 2005, how could I not have been interested in the debates over genetically modified food specific to the ea......more

Goodreads review by Bianca

All Over Creation was my first Ozeki novel. I know she's got a new book out, but since my library hasn't yet added the audiobook to their collection, I decided to try whatever was available as an audiobook, as I didn't want to add another book on my neglected pile of books on my bedside table. This n......more

Goodreads review by But_i_thought_

Oh well. After loving A Tale for the Time Being so much, it’s a pity this prior novel by the same author fell so flat! As a brief outline, the story follows Yumi Fuller, a Japanese-American woman returning to her childhood farm in Idaho to care for her ailing parents. An alternate plot line charts th......more

Goodreads review by Liisa

Second read, 8.2020, 4/5 I still very much relate to my past self’s fangirling over Ruth Ozeki, which you can read below, but some things didn’t feel quite as perfect the second time around. Having now reread all her novels, I can say that I like All Over Creation the least. I don’t feel as connected......more