"In precise and luminous prose, Ozeki captures both the sweep and detail of our shared humanity. The result is gripping, fearless, inspiring and true."
--Madeline Miller, author of the Orange Prize winner The Song of Achilles

"Wonderfully wild and bracing . . . A feast that leaves you hungry for whatever Ozeki cooks up next."
--Newsweek

"My Year of Meats pulsates with passion. . . . Ozeki's first novel detonates an attack on the meat industry that would make Upton Sinclair sit up and smile . . . yet all this energy doesn't obscure the novel's quirky charm."
--USA Today

"Ruth Ozeki masks a deeper purpose with a light tone . . . A comical-satirical-farcical-epical-tragical-romantical novel."
--Jane Smiley, Chicago Tribune

"An amazingly assured debut, My Year of Meats is a wonderfully irreverent novel, with wacky cross-cultural collisions and hilarious characters . . . a joy to read."
--Elle

"Ozeki offers a remarkably fresh view of the rocky road many women travel to love and motherhood . . . one of the heartiest, and, yes, meatiest debuts in years."
--Glamour

"Romance, agri-business, self-discovery, cross-cultural misunderstanding--it takes a talent like Ruth Ozeki's to blend all these ingredients beautifully together. My Year of Meats is a sensitive and compelling portrait of two modern women."
--Arthur Golden, author of Memoirs of a Geisha

"Canny, cunning, muckraking, and lusty, weaving hormones and corporate threats, fertility and independence."
--The Village Voice

"A likeably odd and inventively imagined tale . . . Ozeki writes with the same over-the-top verve as fellow hyper-realist David Foster Wallace."
--Detroit Free Press