ARGONAUT BOOKS

'Kitchen' juxtaposes two tales about mothers, transsexuality, bereavement, kitchens, love and tragedy in contemporary Japan. Reviews A perfect jewel of a novel, delicious and comforting and pure.Lena DunhamA quality of poignant dignified resilience makes this little work worthwhile.IndependentYoshimoto's writing is lucid, earnest and disarming, as emotionally observant as Jane Smiley's, as fluently readable as Anne Tyler's . . . [Kitchen] is at once familiar and bizarre . . . [Yoshimoto] has a wonderful tactile ability to convey a mood or a sensation through her ...Read More