The debut book of Banana Yoshimoto is an important book for young readers all over the world. There are two short stories in the book: the title Kitchen and Moonlight Shadow. In Kitchen, a young girl, Mikage, deals with mourning thanks to a boy she meets and his transgender mother. The characters of Moonlight Shadow – Satsuki, whose boyfriend died in an accident, his brother, who also lost his girlfriend, and Urara, a mysterious woman, met during the night, also have to deal with loneliness and loss.
The warmth, the smell of the kitchen, the hum of the refrigerator, the joy of eating at a shared table, the dreaminess of metropolitan Tokyo at night, sadness and love fill the prose of Banana Yoshimoto and bring relief in an extraordinary way.
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