Inside and Other Short Fiction: Japanese Women by Japanese Women by Ruth Ozeki Reviewed by Terry Hong
Christian Science Monitor
"Putting Ruth Ozeki's name on a book's cover is an unconditional guarantee that I will buy that book. And I'm not alone: Ozeki's novels My Year of Meats and All Over Creation have been international successes. The cachet associated with Ozeki's name has apparently not gone unnoticed in the publishing world. On the cover of Inside and Other Short Fiction: Japanese Women by Japanese Women, released this month by Kodansha, only Ozeki's name appears ? 'with a foreword by Ruth Ozeki' ? and one must open the book to see that this is a collection of eight stories compiled by Cathy Layne (a transplanted Liverpudlian Tokyo-ite editor who also translated three of the stories), by eight different authors and four additional translators." Read the entire Christian Science Monitor review.