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My Year of Meats |
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| Book: Paperback | 5.43 x 7.95in | 400 pages | ISBN 9780140280463 | 01 Mar 1999 | Penguin | 18 - AND UP |
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Veteran filmmaker Ruth Ozeki's novel has been hailed as "one of the heartiest and yes, meatiest debuts in years" (Glamour). It tells the story of a year in the lives of two ordinary women on opposite ends of the earth, brought together by a convergence of extraordinary circumstances. Jane, a struggling filmmaker in New York, is given her big break—a chance to travel through the U.S. 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 taps into some of the deepest concerns of our time—how the past informs the present and how we live and love in an ever-shrinking world.
"My Year of Meats is canny, cunning, muckraking, and lusty, weaving hormones and corporate threats, fertility and independence." —The Village Voice
"[An] amazingly assured debut novel...My Year of Meats is a wonderfully irreverent novel, with wacky cross-cultural collisions and hilarious characters...a joy to read." —Elle
"Ozeki offers a remarkably fresh view of the rocky road many women travel to love and motherhood...one of the heartiest and, yes, meatiest debuts in years." —Glamour
"A likeably odd and inventively imagined tale...Ozeki writes with the same over-the-top voice as fellow hyper-realist David Foster Wallace." —Detroit Free Press
Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Award
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