Published in 2021, The Book of Form and Emptiness stands as one of Ozeki's most profound and inventive works, blending realism, philosophy, and metafiction to explore how people make meaning in a noisy, material world.

The story follows Benny Oh,...

My Year of Meats is a novel written by Ruth Ozeki and published in 1998. This is Ozeki’s first novel, and it tells of two women, separated by an ocean and by their respective cultures but connected by a Japanese TV cooking show being filmed in “...

Ruth Ozeki is an American-Canadian novelist born on March 12, 1956 in New Haven, Connecticut. As a child, her father, who worked as an anthropologist, encouraged her to focus on her studies and emphasized education as a top priority in life. With...