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POWELLS.COM – INTERVIEW
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Dave: You talked extensively about naming My Year of Meats. It made me curious about All Over Creation. How did you choose that title?
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Ruth Ozeki: The name was there right from the start. I never really wavered. I wanted to bring in this idea of creation because that's so much what the book is about, generations and regenerations. But also it's about this need we have to imitate God and to impose our own creative will on nature, so I wanted something that had a slight Biblical resonance like that. The idea of "all over creation" — there's something wild and out of control about that, a randomness that I really liked.
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SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE – REVIEW
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Ruth Ozeki's follow-up to her first novel, "My Year of Meats," is a triumph that earns its inclusive title. "All Over Creation" naturally and joyfully folds concerns about genetically modified organisms into a powerful family drama set in rural Idaho.
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CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR - REVIEW
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Ozeki handles [her story] with a winning mixture of wit and tenderness. It's a jungle of a plot, a riot of literary species, sown with strains of deadly satire and heartrending tragedy - winding around kitchen table discussions about family duty and through the international debate on genetically modified food. She's as good with the broad comedy of wacky political protests as she is with the terrifying ramifications of genetic manipulation. She can skewer the industry's PR flaks in one chapter and serve as the midwife for long-deferred affection in the next. And she tends a thicket of metaphors about gardening, seeds, and biodiversity, describing the promiscuity of plants with as much frankness as the promiscuity of her characters.
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SATYA MAGAZINE - INTERVIEW
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Why do you write so much about food?
I love to eat. I love to cook. I can’t think of anything more fundamental and essential than food. My concerns about it really come from that. But there’s more to it. I think that if you take this idea of "you are what you eat" seriously, then food is our fundamental identity.
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