For this week's Teaser Tuesday I'm choosing My Year of Meats by Ruth L. Ozeki
The rules come from MizB of Should Be Reading.
Grab your current read
Open to a random page
Share two (2) "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page
BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn't give too much away! You don't want to ruin the book for others!)
Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!
The Book Summery from GoodReads:
At first glance, a novel that promises to expose the unethical practices of the American meat industry may not be at the top of your reading list, but Ruth Ozeki's debut, My Year of Meats is well worth a second look. Like the author, the novel's protagonist, Jane Takagi-Little, is a Japanese-American documentary filmmaker; like Ozeki, who was once commissioned by a beef lobbying group to make television shows for the Japanese market, Jane is invited to work on a Japanese television show meant to encourage beef consumption via the not-so-subliminal suggestion that prime rib equals a perfect family:
The Teasers:
It was the oddest moment. Sitting on the edge of a polyester coverlet on a king sized bed in the Compasion Inn, I felt an overwhelming sensation, a tremendous shudder that I imagine must have been akin to grace.
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