The release date for the English version of 'My Year of Meats' by
Ruth Ozeki is Mar 1999. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
The breakthrough smash by the renowned author of A Tale for the Time Being, a cross-cultural story of two women pulled together by the intersections of television and industrial agriculture, fertility and motherhood, life and love
Readers and critics all around the globe have been enthralled by Ruth Ozeki's captivating first book. Documentarian Jane Takagi-Little discovers some dark secrets about love, fertility, and a hormone known as DES when she eventually obtains a position creating a Japanese television program that also happens to be supported by an American meat-exporting company. She will soon come into contact with Akiko Ueno, a troubled Japanese housewife who is fighting to get away from her controlling husband.
Michael Pollan, Margaret Atwood, and Barbara Kingsolver readers will enjoy My Year of Meats, a contemporary retelling of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle that was hailed by USA Today as "rare and provocative" and winner of the Kirayama Prize for Literature of the Pacific Rim.