How long does it take to read My Year of Meats?
My Year of Meats by Ruth L. Ozeki takes about 6 hours 48 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 48 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1998. 371 pages, about 102,025 words.
14 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 11 hours 20 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 48 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 15 minutes |
The page count is the median across 15 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A cross-cultural tale of two women brought together by the intersections of television and industrial agriculture, fertility and motherhood, life and love—the breakout hit by the celebrated author of A Tale for the Time Being. Ruth Ozeki’s mesmerizing debut novel has captivated readers and reviewers worldwide. When documentarian Jane Takagi-Little finally lands a job producing a Japanese television show that just happens to be sponsored by an American meat-exporting business, she uncovers some unsavory truths about love, fertility, and a dangerous hormone called DES. Soon she will also cross paths with Akiko Ueno, a beleaguered Japanese housewife struggling to escape her overbearing husband. Hailed by USA Today as “rare and provocative” and awarded the Kirayama Prize for Literature of the Pacific Rim, My Year of Meats is a modern-day take on Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle for fans of Michael Pollan, Margaret Atwood, and Barbara Kingsolver.
Subjects: Female Infertility, Fiction, Infertility, Female, Meat consumption, Meat industry and trade, Television programs
