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All Over Creation

By: Ruth Ozeki
Narrated by: Anna Fields
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Audie Award Winner, Fiction (unabridged), 2004

Meet Yumi Fuller. A Japanese-American prodigal daughter, Yumi (aka Yummy) is returning home to the Idaho potato farm she ran away from 25 years earlier. Then a freewheeling hippie chick, Yumi is now a fairly responsible parent and a professor with a side gig selling lava lots in Hawaii. But can she possibly be prepared to face her dying father, her Alzheimer's-devastated mother, and Cass, the best friend she left behind?

As she grapples with her conflicted past and uncertain future, Yumi collides with the Seeds of Resistance, a rollicking band of environmentalists who see her parents' potato farm as an ideal in their fight against genetic engineering. With her signature wit and uncanny ability to evoke the pathos and humor of life's conundrums, Ozeki spins a tale of family, food, and corporate greed.

Ruth Ozeki is an award-winning novelist and filmmaker. She is also the author of All Over Creation and, most recently, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013 for A Tale for the Time Being. Ozeki was born and raised in Connecticut, by an American father and Japanese mother. In June 2010 she was ordained as a Zen Buddhist priest. She divides her time between British Columbia and New York.

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Critic reviews

"Ruth Ozeki's acclaimed debut novel is 'marvellously funny and passionate'" (Jane Smiley)
"Smart, funny, irreverent" (Guardian)
"A joy to read" (Elle)

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Fantastic

Really enjoyed this book. It’s well written, the characters are really fleshed out and have stories all of their own yet come together to produce a great story about family, estrangement, parenting, farming, activism etc. And I ended up having sympathy for Yumi who learns that when you return home to your parents you become a child again. (And I loved the kids)

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Excellent listen

Beautiful and engrossing story, wonderful writing and characters and narrated perfectly. I highly recommend it.

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original and interesting

i found this an interesting subject and told with an original voice. i thought the considerable variety of characters really came to life. beautifully narrated. i would highly recommend.

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Very engaging. I love Ruth Ozeki's work

One of those books with a great balance of intelligence and grace, but not too wordy or difficult to get through. At its core it is a description of how it is to be human.
The narration was a tiny bit flat, but good enough.

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really super

Excellent story, fantastic characters who you liked and hated as if real, felt i was totally in Idaho and also, it's clear Ozeki knows the crack about the world and its tricks.

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Absolutely loved it

The third of Ruth Ozeki's books I've read now and quite possibly my favourite. I loved it from start to finish. I just can't get enough of her writing and the narration was great too.

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Love Ruth Ozeki

I have yet to read a disappointing book by Ruth Ozeki. off to find another one

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Excellent narrator tells a great story

This is the same narrator as My Year of Meats & I think she does a wonderful job. It is a great novel. Both of these novels have complex storylines & both do not date. They are as relevant today as when they were first published.

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Brilliant, loved it

My third Ruth Ozeki book, I absolutely love them. This one was particularly engaging and I felt like I’d entered a great adventure. Her characters are so well realised, it is easy to empathise and believe in them. A very moving, well realised book.

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Superb

Fabulous story telling - became lost in this book- it would make an amazing film some time

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