My Year of Meats

Ruth Ozeki

• Publisher: Canongate Canons
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN:
  9781786898999
• eBook ISBN:
  9781782111153
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literature General
• Index: Literature

In a single eye-opening year two women, worlds apart, experience parallel awakenings. In New York, Jane Takagi-Little lands a job producing a Japanese television show sponsored by an American meat-exporting business, exposing some unsavoury truths – about the meat industry and herself. In Tokyo, housewife Akiko Ueno diligently prepares the recipes from Jane's programme. Struggling to please her husband, she increasingly doubts her commitment to the life she has fallen into.

As Jane and Akiko both battle to assert their individuality on opposite sides of the globe, they are drawn together in a startling story of strength, courage and love.

Table of contents

• Cover
• About the Author
• My Year of Meat
• About the Author
• Also by Ruth Ozeki
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Author’ Note
• The Months of the Year
• Epigraph
• Prologue
• The Sprouting Month
• The Clothes-Lining Month
• The Ever-Growing Month
• The Deutzia Month
• The Rice-Sprouting Month
• The Water Month
• The Poem-Composing Month
• The Leaf Month
• The Long Month
• The Gods-Absent Month
• The Frost Month
• The End of the Year
• Epilogue: January
• Bibliography
• Notes
• Acknowledgments
• Promo page for other Canongate titles