My Year of Meats |
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Author:
| Ozeki, Ruth |
Read by:
| Fields, Anna |
ISBN: | 978-0-7861-2486-2 |
Publication Date: | Jul 2006 |
Publisher: | Blackstone Audio, Incorporated
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Book Format: | Audio tape |
List Price: | USD $39.95 |
Book Description:
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With reality, humor, and a message about corporate greed, Ozeki weaves together the story of two women a world apart. 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 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,...
More DescriptionWith reality, humor, and a message about corporate greed, Ozeki weaves together the story of two women a world apart. 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 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 in wacky crosscultural collisions provides romance, humor, intrigue, and even a muckraking message about questionable meat and the homogenization of America.