![]() ![]() As a self-professed ‘foodie’ I felt an immediate connection to Mikage and her love of good food. Yet through it all, Mikage finds a way to overcome her sorrow and to heal, through sharing the pleasure she derives from cooking and eating delicious food. However, before long a tragedy strikes which turns their three lives upside down. Kitchen is a snapshot of the life of Mikage, a young Japanese woman aspiring to be a chef, who in her struggle to cope with the recent loss her last living relative (her grandmother), is befriended by a young man, Yuichi Tanabe and his ‘mother,’ Eriko. ![]() ![]() While I found both tales ( Kitchen and Moonlight Shadows) comprising the novella entertaining, the eponymous story ( Kitchen) was my overwhelming favorite. From start to finish I was captivted by her poetic and effortlessly ‘smooth as jazz’ prose (which reminded me in some ways of Haruki Murakami’s, South of the Border, West of the Sun). I thoroughly enjoyed reading Banana Yoshimoto‘s novella Kitchen. ![]()
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