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My Year of Meats

by Ruth L. Ozeki (Viking, cloth, $23.95)

A novel imitating documentary film, imitating life, My Year of Meats culls material from Ruth Ozeki's bizarre experiences from rural America to urban Japan. This woman gathers stuff! Great stuff, interesting stuff, funny stuff and all the nasty stuff about the meat industry. And she has turned it into a great book - a fascinating story of a Japanese-American filmmaker producing a Japanese television show, "My American Wife!" The project evolves into a transcontinental journey that profiles American women, their family lives and their meaty recipes. Their strengths and weaknesses are then gauged through the reactions of both the filmmaker and a Japanese viewer. Told through careful prose,interviews, letters, faxes and quotes from The Pillow Book, Ozeki reinforces, then disbands, stereotypes of women's expectations and their contributions to family values. Best of all, she includes the recipe for beef fudge.


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An interesting title and cover change took place for the Australian release of My Year Of Meats - the "Meats" became singular and the cover was a vast improvment on the kitsch American one.

RUTH L. OZEKI - Writers' Studio Writer of the Year


Ruth Ozeki is also a very talented film maker. Below is a little information on...

HALVING THE BONES
Ruth Ozeki Lounsbury graduated summa cum laude from Smith College with degrees in English Literature and Asian Studies and numerous writing awards. She received a Japanese Ministry of Education Fellowship and emigrated to Japan to do graduate work in classical Japanese literature. She later joined the faculty at Kyoto Sangyo University, and in 1985 Lounsbury returned to the US and gave up teaching for a short but distinguished career as production designer for low-budget horror movies. By 1987 she switched genres to Japanese television. Lounsbury has directed and produced a large number of documentary-format programs for network television. Her first independent narrative film, Body of Correspondence, was the winner in the New Visions category at the 1995 San Francisco Film and Video Festival. Halving the Bones is her second independent and first feature-length film.

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Ruth has just won the1998 Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize!!!

Winner of $30,000 Prize, Ruth Ozeki was named October 24 from a list of six finalists. The purpose of this book prize is to promote understanding among peoples and nations of the Pacific Rim. A total of 239 books were submitted for review by the panel of five judges, who will announced the winner on the Saturday, October 24 broadcast of "Sedge Thomson's West Coast Live".

® My Year of Meats, Ruth L. Ozeki (Viking, New York). Ozeki's lively first novel parallels the lives of an independent-minded Japanese American filmmaker and a Japanese housewife bound to her traditional role. Their serendipitous meeting forces both women to confront their views of sexual roles, relationships, media manipulation, and their cultural context on both sides of the Pacific.


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