This novel was told primarily from the point of view of a documentary filmmaker, so it was fitting that we got lots of unsavory background on the meat industry. I must have read an excerpt of it elsewhere, because one section (that had to do with the use of hormones at feedlots) was familiar.

The main characters, Jane Takagi-Little and Akiko Ueno, were very realistically portrayed, and I very much enjoyed their stories. Several of the (male) supporting characters were little more than caricatures.