{"product_id":"my-year-of-meats-isbn-9780140280463","title":"My Year of Meats","description":"\u003cb\u003eA 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 \u003ci\u003eA Tale for the Time Being \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Form and Emptiness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eUSA Today \u003c\/i\u003eas “rare and provocative” and awarded the Kirayama Prize for Literature of the Pacific Rim, \u003ci\u003eMy Year of Meats \u003c\/i\u003eis a modern-day take on Upton Sinclair’s \u003ci\u003eThe Jungle\u003c\/i\u003e for fans of Michael Pollan, Margaret Atwood, and Barbara Kingsolver.“Ozeki is one of my favorite novelists . . . bewitching, intelligent, hilarious, and heartbreaking, often on the same page.”\u003cbr\u003e —Junot Díaz, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of \u003ci\u003eThis Is How You Lose Her\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “In precise and luminous prose, Ozeki captures both the sweep and detail of our shared humanity. The result is gripping, fearless, inspiring and true.”\u003cbr\u003e —Madeline Miller, author of the Orange Prize winner \u003ci\u003eThe Song of Achilles\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Wonderfully wild and bracing . . . A feast that leaves you hungry for whatever Ozeki cooks up next.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e—Newsweek\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “\u003ci\u003eMy Year of Meats\u003c\/i\u003e pulsates with passion. . . . Ozeki’s first novel detonates an attack on the meat industry that would make Upton Sinclair sit up and smile . . . yet all this energy doesn’t obscure the novel’s quirky charm.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e—USA Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Ruth Ozeki masks a deeper purpose with a light tone . . . A comical-satirical-farcical-epical-tragical-romantical novel.”\u003cbr\u003e —Jane Smiley, \u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “An amazingly assured debut, \u003ci\u003eMy Year of Meats \u003c\/i\u003eis a wonderfully irreverent novel, with wacky cross-cultural collisions and hilarious characters . . . a joy to read.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e—Elle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “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.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e—Glamour\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Romance, agri-business, self-discovery, cross-cultural misunderstanding—it takes a talent like Ruth Ozeki’s to blend all these ingredients beautifully together. \u003ci\u003eMy Year of Meats \u003c\/i\u003eis a sensitive and compelling portrait of two modern women.”\u003cbr\u003e —Arthur Golden, author of \u003ci\u003eMemoirs of a Geisha\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Canny, cunning, muckraking, and lusty, weaving hormones and corporate threats, fertility and independence.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e—The Village Voice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “A likeably odd and inventively imagined tale . . . Ozeki writes with the same over-the-top verve as fellow hyper-realist David Foster Wallace.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e—Detroit Free Press\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eRuth Ozeki \u003c\/b\u003eis a novelist, filmmaker, and Zen Buddhist priest. She is the award-winning author of three novels, \u003ci\u003eMy Year of Meats\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAll Over Creation\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eA Tale for the Time Being\u003c\/i\u003e, which was a finalist for the 2013 Booker Prize. Her nonfiction work includes a memoir, \u003ci\u003eThe Face: A Time Code,\u003c\/i\u003e and the documentary film,\u003ci\u003e Halving the Bones. \u003c\/i\u003eShe is affiliated with the Everyday Zen Foun­dation and teaches creative writing at Smith College, where she is the Grace Jarcho Ross 1933 Professor of Humanities.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301614538981,"sku":"NP9780140280463","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780140280463.jpg?v=1767733407","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/my-year-of-meats-isbn-9780140280463","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}