My Year of Meats, Ruth Ozeki
My Year of Meats, Ruth Ozeki
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My Year of Meats

Author: Ruth Ozeki

Narrator: Anna Fields

Unabridged: 11 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/25/2005

Categories: Fiction

Synopsis

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 American meat exporters. Meanwhile, Akiko, a painfully thin Japanese woman struggling with bulimia, is being pressured by her childcraving husband to put some meat on her bones, literally. How Jane's and Akiko's lives intersect in wacky crosscultural collisions provides romance, humor, intrigue, and even a muckraking message about questionable meat and the homogenization of America.

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 “witty, intelligent, and passionate” by the Independent, and as possessing “shrewd and playful humor, luscious
sexiness, and kinetic pizzazz” 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 Vanessa on September 26, 2018

4.5 stars. I can’t say that I was overly excited to read this book based on the synopsis. I picked it based solely on the author as I had been meaning to read her for ages, I really thought the book would be dull and hokey. But I was pleasantly surprised. A truly original albeit complex story. Sure......more

Goodreads review by Cat on December 08, 2011

Ruth Ozeki recognizes the collaboration of commercially-fueled media hype, deliberately adopted consumer ignorance, and the bottom-line practices of the food industry, and this diagnosis of disturbing global trends and local effects rings true. There was a lot of information in this book about hormo......more

Goodreads review by judy on January 24, 2008

the ending just ruined it for me. there was something contrived in the magic it tried to dust over an otherwise clean, compelling narrative. i was close to love up until the epilogue's approach. "Sometimes Akiko felt like a thief, sneaking through the desolate corners of her own life, stealing back m......more

Goodreads review by Elaine on April 15, 2017

I started out loving this book. The voice was moving, and it seemed like a love letter to everything I adore about the American Heartland. I was fascinated by the commentary on authenticity - with ourselves, with physical commodities such as meat, and with others. I also absolutely loved the excerpt......more

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