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All Over Creation - The Botany of Desire - Book Review
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No small potatoes.
All Over Creation by Ruth Ozeki Viking, 2003. 417 pages. $24.95.
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan Random House, 2001. 271 pages. $24.95 (hardcover). Random House, 2002. 304 pages. $13.95 (paperback). Ruth Ozeki is an antidote to all the vapid, consumer-oriented "chick lit" thrown at women these days. She creates characters that are concerned with more than tracking their cigarette habits. In Ozeki's first novel, My Year of Meats (Penguin, 1998), the protagonist is an independent filmmaker who learns much more than she...See the full content of this document
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