About the Author

RUTH OZEKI is the popular and award-winning Japanese-American author of My Year of Meats and All Over Creation. She divides her time between New York and British Columbia.

The jacket art is a section of ID400 by TOMOKO SAWADA, an artist famous both in Japan and overseas for striking photographic images that question the identity of women.

Reviews

"Bold stories by and about Japanese women who scorn the veneer of politesse and powder..." -Elle Magazine
"Exciting and invaluable" -L. A. Times
.".. A provocative introduction to notable contemporary literature by Japanese women."
-Publishers Weekly
."..The work of a group of powerful writers." -Library Journal
."..You'll find no Hollywood geishas here...just women living-and surviving-the challenges of their daily lives." -The Christian Science Monitor
"Divorce, marriage, infidelity, apathy, boredom, and sex are frankly explored ...never sentimental or overwrought...Move over, Haruki Murakami." -Booklist


"Bold stories by and about Japanese women who scorn the veneer of politesse and powder..." -Elle Magazine
"Exciting and invaluable" -L. A. Times
.,." A provocative introduction to notable contemporary literature by Japanese women."
-Publishers Weekly
.,."The work of a group of powerful writers." -Library Journal
.,."You'll find no Hollywood geishas here...just women living-and surviving-the challenges of their daily lives." -The Christian Science Monitor
"Divorce, marriage, infidelity, apathy, boredom, and sex are frankly explored ...never sentimental or overwrought...Move over, Haruki Murakami." -Booklist


"Bold stories by and about Japanese women who scorn the veneer of politesse and powder..." -Elle Magazine
"Exciting and invaluable" -L. A. Times
, .." A provocative introduction to notable contemporary literature by Japanese women."
-Publishers Weekly
, .."The work of a group of powerful writers." -Library Journal
, .."You'll find no Hollywood geishas here...just women living-and surviving-the challenges of their daily lives." -The Christian Science Monitor
"Divorce, marriage, infidelity, apathy, boredom, and sex are frankly explored ...never sentimental or overwrought...Move over, Haruki Murakami." -Booklist

"Bold stories by and about Japanese women who scorn the veneer of politesse and powder..." -Elle Magazine
"Exciting and invaluable" -L. A. Times
.,." A provocative introduction to notable contemporary literature by Japanese women."
-Publishers Weekly
.,."The work of a group of powerful writers." -Library Journal
.,."You'll find no Hollywood geishas here...just women living-and surviving-the challenges of their daily lives." -The Christian Science Monitor
"Divorce, marriage, infidelity, apathy, boredom, and sex are frankly explored ...never sentimental or overwrought...Move over, Haruki Murakami." -Booklist