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A review by tej_reads
Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
dark
reflective
sad
medium-paced
3.25
This copy contained two short stories, "Kitchen" and "Moonlight Shadow". The stories explain loss in such an organic way, as they rely heavily on internal monologue. So you're immersed very quickly into the character's mental state, emotions and thoughts.
Eriko is trans, I thought they were kind and genuine but I did not like the way they were treated. The main character Mikage and Eriko's son Yoichi and on the surface accepting but consistently refer to Eriko as 'really a man' and that doesn't sit right with me. Granted Kitchen was written in the 1980s so the positive depiction of Eriko was progressive but I didn't like the comments by either characters.
Eriko is trans, I thought they were kind and genuine but I did not like the way they were treated. The main character Mikage and Eriko's son Yoichi and on the surface accepting but consistently refer to Eriko as 'really a man' and that doesn't sit right with me. Granted Kitchen was written in the 1980s so the positive depiction of Eriko was progressive but I didn't like the comments by either characters.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death, Death of parent, and Murder
Minor: Stalking and Suicide