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My Year of Meats Paperback - 1999
by Ruth Ozeki
Jane, a struggling filmmaker, is producing a piece sponsored by the American meat exporting business, while Akiko's child-craving husband is pressuring her to put some meat on her bones--literally.
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A cross-cultural tale of two women brought together by the intersections of television and industrial agriculture, fertility and motherhood, life and lovethe breakout hit by the celebrated author of A Tale for the Time Being
Ruth Ozeki’s mesmerizing debut novel has captivated readers and reviewers worldwide. When documentarian Jane Takagi-Little finally lands a job producing a Japanese television show that just happens to be sponsored by an American meat-exporting business, she uncovers some unsavory truths about love, fertility, and a dangerous hormone called DES. Soon she will also cross paths with Akiko Ueno, a beleaguered Japanese housewife struggling to escape her overbearing husband. Hailed by USA Today as rare and provocative” and awarded the Kirayama Prize for Literature of the Pacific Rim, My Year of Meats is a modern-day take on Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle for fans of Michael Pollan, Margaret Atwood, and Barbara Kingsolver.
Ruth Ozeki’s mesmerizing debut novel has captivated readers and reviewers worldwide. When documentarian Jane Takagi-Little finally lands a job producing a Japanese television show that just happens to be sponsored by an American meat-exporting business, she uncovers some unsavory truths about love, fertility, and a dangerous hormone called DES. Soon she will also cross paths with Akiko Ueno, a beleaguered Japanese housewife struggling to escape her overbearing husband. Hailed by USA Today as rare and provocative” and awarded the Kirayama Prize for Literature of the Pacific Rim, My Year of Meats is a modern-day take on Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle for fans of Michael Pollan, Margaret Atwood, and Barbara Kingsolver.
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- Title My Year of Meats
- Author Ruth Ozeki
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: repri
- Pages 400
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, New York, New York
- Date 1999-03-01
- Features Bibliography, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780140280463 / 0140280464
- Weight 0.62 lbs (0.28 kg)
- Dimensions 8.06 x 5.12 x 0.8 in (20.47 x 13.00 x 2.03 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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- Cultural Region: Asian - Japanese
- Topical: Family
- Library of Congress subjects Cookery (Meat), Housewives - Tokyo
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97052319
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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- Mother Jones, 11/01/2000, Page 91
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