5/9/2023 0 Comments Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto![]() Mikage stays with Yuichi and Eriko for several months, falling into an easy rhythm of working part-time and tending to the house. Mikage feels strangely comfortable in their apartment and agrees to stay, sleeping on the giant sofa in the kitchen, next to a window framing a dark sky dotted with stars. It seems perfectly natural to Yuichi to see Eriko as his mother as she’s so feminine. Mikage is dazzled by Eriko’s beauty and amazed when Yuichi explains that “ is a man.” Eriko was actually Yuichi’s biological father, but after Yuichi’s biological mother died of cancer when Yuichi was a baby, Eriko decided to become a woman, open a nightclub, and raise Yuichi as his mother. ![]() When Mikage enters Yuichi’s apartment, she is drawn to the kitchen full of plates, pots, and pans, and sinks into the massive, soft sofa. Yuichi seems to glow with light and Mikage is compelled to accept the invitation. Yuichi suggests that Mikage come to stay with him and his mother Eriko for a while. Yuichi goes to Mikage’s university but she doesn’t know him well, although Yuichi was close with Mikage’s grandmother. The only place Mikage can sleep is in the kitchen, which is where she’s been for days when Yuichi Tanabe knocks on her door. ![]() Now that her grandmother is dead, Mikage has nobody in the world and feels utterly alone in the dark universe. Mikage’s mother and father died when Mikage was very young, so Mikage’s grandmother raised her. Mikage’s grandmother has just died, and Mikage is in a haze of grief, unable to sleep. ![]()
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