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“Ruth Ozeki is bent on taking the novel into corners of American culture no one else has thought to look – but where she finds us in all our transcultural and technological weirdness. With a combination of humor and pathos that is all her own, Ozeki brings the American pastoral forward into the age of agribusiness and genetic engineering. The result is a smart and compelling novel about a world we don’t realize we live in.”
-Michael Pollan, author of “The Botany of Desire”
My Year Of Meats
“This is a very cool book, satirical but never mean, funny, peopled by fully inhabited characters who are both blind and self-aware. Ruth Ozeki’s My Year of Meats reassures us that media and culture, though bound inextricably, will never become one.”
- John Sayles, former member, Amalgamated Meat Packers and Butcher Workers of North America; Director of Matewan, Men with Guns, and Sunshine Coast.
Charlie Chan is Dead 2
Forty-two fresh, vibrant, dissonant voices in contemporary Asian American writing come together in this groundbreaking anthology. Edited by acclaimed novelist Jessica Hagedorn, this collection of short stories celebrates the rich spectrum of Asian American experience and identities. Ruth Ozeki’s “Ships in the Night” is one of the stories included.
Halving the Bones
“Combining imagined home movies, true stories, tall tales and her own playful nature, Ozeki breaks the rules of documentary filmmaking and is all the better for it.”
-Barry Walters, San Francisco Examiner.
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Thank you for your books and your teaching. I admire your powerful and insightful story-telling. You set to words and story a portion of the pain I carry for our present world. I have taught about biology and ecology for many years because I love with all my soul the beauty and wonder of the natural world. Maya may be an illusion, but I find my love for Nature makes me carry pain for the world in which we now live. The vulnerability of living things and especially children and women haunts me. I know the Buddha said that desire is the cause of pain and anguish, but I find it terribly difficult to let it go. It seems to me that somebody has to carry the pain and awareness of the world. Your books and those of Barbara Kingsolver express what I have felt for seventy years. I am so grateful to you. Your stories allow me to cry, to release some of the load, and to laugh. Please do a book about water politics, the over-plumbing of the water supplies of the U.S, and the assault on the water tables. Namaste, Joyce Roderick
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