He and his mother, Eriko, offer a much needed respite by opening their home to Mikage, complete with a beautiful kitchen (“It was a good kitchen. Yuichi, a younger university student, works part-time at the floral shop her grandmother frequented. Fortunately, Mikage also inherits her grandmother’s friendship with Yuichi Tanabe.
Still grief-stricken, the thought of moving and house hunting paralyzes her. While her grandmother left her money, she nonetheless must downsize her apartment to stretch her funds. The blackness of the cosmos.”), she only can sleep next to the humming refrigerator.
Stunned by her utter solitude (“It’s total science fiction.
University student Mikage Sakurai loves kitchens, which become her refuge when the death of her grandmother making her an orphan twice over. The heart of the home truly is the kitchen for the young protagonist of Banana Yoshimoto’s debut novel Kitchen (translated by Megan Backus).
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