My year of meats - Ruth Ozeki

In a single eye-opening year, two women, worlds apart, experience parallel awakenings.

In New York, Jane Takagi-Little has landed a job producing Japanese docu-soap My American Wife! But as she researches the consumption of meat
in the American home, she begins to realize that her ruthless search for
a story is deeply compromising her morals.

Meanwhile, in Tokyo, housewife Akiko Ueno
diligently prepares the recipes from Jane's programme. Struggling to
please her husband, she increasingly doubts her commitment to the life
she has fallen into.

As Jane and Akiko both battle to assert their
individuality on opposite sides of the globe, they are drawn together in
a startling story of strength, courage, love.