My Year of Meats

by Ruth Ozeki

Genres: Family Life; Humor & Satire; Literary Fiction

Synopsis

A modern-day take on Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle.

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 American meat exporters.

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 Wal-Martification of America.

A Blackstone Audio production.

Release date: March 1, 1999

Publisher: Penguin Books

Print pages: 400