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Original Title:	My Year of Meats
ISBN:	0140280464 (ISBN13: 9780140280463)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Audie Award for Best Unabridged Fiction (2004), Kiriyama Prize (1998)

My Year of Meats Paperback | Pages: 366 pages

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Title	:	My Year of Meats
Author	:	Ruth Ozeki
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 366 pages
Published	:	March 1st 1999 by Penguin Books (first published June 1st 1998)
Categories	:	Fiction. Food and Drink. Food. Cultural. Japan. Contemporary. Novels. Literary Fiction. Adult

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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 love—the 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.

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If I could, I would make this compulsory reading for everyone. Beautiful and awful, tragic and splendid... I'm so sad it's over.

so sharp! so tangy. one of the best pieces of satirical fiction that i have read. ozeki does an incredible job of rippling the waters of the façade of media to show the humans behind all that we do. to show what "truth" really means to those who are in charge of creating our facts.

"I am haunted by all the things big things and little things, Splendid Things and Squalid Things that threaten to slip through the cracks, untold, out of history." You know when you start a book and it speaks to your own experiences or thoughts at a particular point in time? If I had to pick a book to transport me back to the 1990s, My Year of Meats would be it. The main character Jane Takagi-Little is tasked with directing a reality TV show for Japanese television and her brief has basically

Second read, 3/2020, 5/5 Oh my. Ruth Ozekis novels seem to just improve upon a reread, and I feel like I understood this better the second time around. The realities of animal agriculture really do make for a powerful literary backdrop. I wish more fiction would explore that, from different angles and not too overwhelmingly, to help people see whats going on. Essentially we need more authors like Ozeki who can brilliantly intertwine important and educational matters with captivating storylines.

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 moments and pieces of herself." (37)"They voted to name her Joy. When she first came to live at the large brick house at the end of the drive, she spoke no English and certain things seemed to terrify

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 hormonally treated beef that I did not know in this detail, and Ozeki is clever to package that information within a novel about two women both preoccupied with their fertility. The first is a

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 excerpts from The Pillow Book and all of its simple profoundness. I'm definitely going to put it on my to-read list. I also was moved by Akiko's plight and found her story interesting.Then, out of nowhere,