Loss is the central theme in Kitchen, but instead of focusing on the tragedies itself, it shows how they can shape us. This may be the first book that I have read by Yoshimoto, but I have read a few other books by Japanese authors and they all have this ability to transform ordinary scenes of life into something with a beautiful and magical, but melancholic tint.
Kitchen, was Banana Yoshimoto’s English-language debut after she was already a literary sensation in Japan.
However, her life slowly brings her back to the kitchen where it once started and the friend who awaits her there. Eventually deciding that it would be best to strike out on her own again, Mikage starts on her own cooking career and is happy for awhile. She find comfort in their kitchen and starts to cook everything she can find information on. As the three of them form an improvised family, which weathers its own tragic losses, Yuichi and Mikage slowly become closer. While grieving, she is taken in by her friend Yuichi and his mother (who was once his father), Eriko. Mikage is an orphan raised by her grandmother, who has passed away. It was clear that the best thing to do was to adopt a sort of muddled cheerfulness.”
It followed that the ratio of pleasant and unpleasant things around me would not change. “I realized that the world did not exist for my benefit.
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