Name: All Over Creation
ISBN: 9780142003893

Ruth Ozeki

Returning home to the Idaho potato farm she fled twenty-five years earlier, Yumi struggles with her father's terminal illness, her mother's Alzheimer's, her former best friend, and a former lover who once offended the town.

All Over Creation

Defintely not my favorite from Ruth Ozeki. Although i was introduced to her through A Tale For The Time Being so many things fail in comparison. Her usual themes of eco-feminism, motherhood, morality and death.

Magdalena

K Higa

Perhaps it is because this is the first non-technical, purely for fun reading that I’ve done in a while, but as a very casual reader whose only hunger is representation in stories, I was very pleased with this book. As a Japanese American who grew up working a produce stand and who is currently living through a polarized political climate in which the right to ones own organs and bones, tendons and other fleshy matter, I was bought in.

Through the plot, we arrive at the center of everything, the crossroads of supposed opposites: science and religion, old and new, society and individuality. The experience of reading was perhaps suggestive of the subject matter itself; it very much felt like I was running through a growing season. Moments of sheltering, huddling, not particularly driving or visceral were sleepy and a prepared lull or hibernation during episodes of Cass trying to engage Will, an unwilling participant In conversation. Moments of action, movement, growth, nurturing, sweetness.

Pierke Bosschieter

Kathy Rodger 

Gustav Vallin

Allison King

Nico J

Returning home to the Idaho potato farm she fled twenty-five years earlier, Japanese-American Yumi struggles with her father's terminal illness, her mother's Alzheimer's, her former best friend, and a former lover who once offended the town. By the author of My Year of Meats. 30,000 first printing.