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My Year of Meats
by Ruth L. Ozeki
USA: Viking
My Year of Meats tells the story of a year in the
lives of two ordinary women on opposite ends of the earth, brought together
by a convergence of extraordinary circumstances. Jane, a struggling filmmaker
in New York, is given her big break: a chance to travel through the U.S.
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 taps into some of the deepest concerns of our time: how
the past informs the present and how we live and love in an ever-shrinking
world.
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