"Ms. Yoshimoto's writing is lucid, earnest and disarming. ... It] seizes hold of the reader's sympathy and refuses to let go." -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times With the publication of Kitchen, the dazzling English-language debut that is still...
A lyrical tale about loss and grief and familial love. When college student Mikage Sakurai is orphaned by the death of her grandmother, she is rescued from loneliness and grief by Yuichi, a young flower shop delivery man, and discovers that families come in many shapes . . ...