Year of Meats

As I start to read this book "Year of Meats" by Ruth Ozeki, I learn of our two main protagonists, Jane and Akiko. I have to say I find these two very interesting; there is Jane, a tall, strong, outspoken Japanese-American producer for a Japanese "reality" show called My American Wife. On the other end of the character spectrum, we have Akiko a small, mousy Japanese woman who lives in quiet fear of her bully husband Joichi (or John as he likes to be called,) John is an executive on the same show that Jane works at. At the beginning of this tale, the only simularities these two ladies have is the show My American wife they might as well be on different planets. The show is what is obviously going to pull these two together, it will be very interesting to see how that develops.