Kitchen (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: Mahoko Yoshimoto
- First Published: 1988
- Type of Work: Novellas
- Genres: Long fiction, Short fiction, Novella
- Subjects: Gender roles, Women, Death or dying, Grandparents or grandchildren, Cookery or cooks, Japan or Japanese people
- Locales: Japan
For a young novelist (she was twenty-four when KITCHEN was first published in Japan), Banana Yoshimoto delivers two keenly perceptive and profound novellas, KITCHEN and MOONLIGHT SHADOWS.
In the first, protagonist Mikage Sakurai has just lost her last relative with the death of her grandmother. Feeling isolated, she accepts an invitation to move in with classmate Yuichi Tanabe and his transsexual mother, Eriko, who operates a bar for gay, transvestite, and transsexual patrons. Mikage finds great comfort with her adopted family and takes charge of all the kitchen duties; it is...
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