A review by skylars_shelf
My Year of Meats, by Ruth Ozeki

5.0

Ozeki expertly mixes comedy and social commentary in this novel. The storyline itself is bizarre-- Jane is helping direct a TV show that's secretly an advertisement for the Japanese meat industry. According to the producer (who is wild and a giant, puffed-up bit of comic relief), wives in Japan will watch healthy American wives on TV preparing healthy hearty meat. But Jane learns more-- about the real day-to-day experiences of housewives in Japan and about the secrets hiding in the meat industry. Perhaps the criticism of factory livestock farms isn't very subtle, but on the other hand, the dramatizations are all based on real research. Highly recommended.