Ruth Ozeki is a novelist, filmmaker, and Zen Buddhist priest. Her well-received works of fiction,
My Year of Meats, All Over Creation, and the new
A Tale For the Time Being, all feature young female protagonists, often at the intersection of Japanese and American culture, clearly elements Ozeki draws on her own life for inspiration about, given that she's Japanese-American herself. Compared to everyone from Anne Tyler to Edward Abbey to Robert Altman and favorably received by the likes of Margaret Atwood and Barbara Kingsolver, Ozeki's fiction seems to have a wide-ranging appeal.
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