In this feisty, terrifying, and ultimately heartwarming novel, two women--one in America, one in Japan--take on the beef industry, hoping to expose the dangers of hormone use in cattle farming. Winner of the Imus American Book Award, the Kiriyama Book Prize, and the Versailles World Cookbook Award.
The author of MY YEAR OF MEATS chooses for her heroine a Japanese-American woman named Yumi, who returns to the home she fled 25 years ago to become a hippie. Home is a potato farm in Idaho, and it's far from an idyllic refuge: her father is dying, her mother is sunk deep into Alzheimer's, her best friend isn't who she used to be, and the world ...
Jane Takagi-Little produces a Japanese television show on all-American meat cooking. Akiko Ueno learns more than just recipes from Jane's programmes. In one parallel year, the lives of two women at opposite ends of the earth are brought together in a novel of meat, TV and personal crisis.
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