http://www.1morechapter.com/2009/02/05/kitchen-by-banana-yoshimoto/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:49:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.1morechapter.com/2009/02/05/kitchen-by-banana-yoshimoto/comment-page-1/#comment-8686 Ruth Mon, 03 May 2010 07:38:28 +0000 http://www.1morechapter.com/?p=4368#comment-8686 For those of us in a grieving process, Kitchen and Amirita are lifesavers (I am two years into grief over the sudden death of a soulmate, and I am 67, and others in my family are ill as I write...). These books are not about youthful Japanese people who are confused about life - these books get to the heart of the flood of life which flows through us and everything, and they say about grief what we have difficulty finding words for, as we are so lost in our grief. Thus they lift us a bit out of it, juxtaposing the grief with happiness, slowly, slowly, slowly drip feeding a desire to live back into us and showing us by example how to do it for ourselves... Thank you for these books. For those of us in a grieving process, Kitchen and Amirita are lifesavers (I am two years into grief over the sudden death of a soulmate, and I am 67, and others in my family are ill as I write…). These books are not about youthful Japanese people who are confused about life – these books get to the heart of the flood of life which flows through us and everything, and they say about grief what we have difficulty finding words for, as we are so lost in our grief. Thus they lift us a bit out of it, juxtaposing the grief with happiness, slowly, slowly, slowly drip feeding a desire to live back into us and showing us by example how to do it for ourselves… Thank you for these books.

]]> http://www.1morechapter.com/2009/02/05/kitchen-by-banana-yoshimoto/comment-page-1/#comment-6672 Cromely Sun, 29 Nov 2009 04:35:48 +0000 http://www.1morechapter.com/?p=4368#comment-6672 I enjoyed Kitchen, too, but Amrita might still be my favorite Yoshimoto book. Reading that book taught me to like Miso Soup before I had ever had any. I enjoyed Kitchen, too, but Amrita might still be my favorite Yoshimoto book. Reading that book taught me to like Miso Soup before I had ever had any.

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