Tag: Kitchen

February 17, 2019

KITCHEN by banana yoshimoto

With clarity Banana Yoshimoto conveys the grief experienced by her characters. In Kitchen, Mikage, an orphan, finds herself alone after the death of her grandmother. Mikage, unable to bear another loss, attempts to withdraw from the outside world. A son and his mother become her unlikely companions and while she stays with them she begins…
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