All Over Creation
“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”
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[...] really helps widen the understanding of the meat industry and the people in it. Her other novel, All of Creation, is a great look into the potato farming industry and way of [...]
[...] All Over Creation is a novel about potatoes and potato farmers. Yes, I know, it does not sound overly exiting, but a few years ago, I read the American-Japanese author Ruth Ozeki’s first novel – My Year of Meats – and was positively surprised, and this her second novel was thus given the benefit of doubt. And, as soon was to be proven, potatoes and potato farmers can be exiting, especially if coupled to the larger issue of agribusiness and genetic engineering. [...]
[...] whenever we can find and afford it. This is part due to reading My Year of Meats and All Over Creation by Ruth Ozeki about what goes into our food without our knowledge or permission. If you [...]