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Originally Posted by astrangerhere
Since this was my theme and I was definitely aiming for non-anglocentric authors, I will nominate Kitchen by the Japanese author Banana Yoshimoto.
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I finally got to this based on your nomination here and have read the title novella (I'll read the shorter second novella in the volume tomorrow). It seems odd to say that a book about grief and despair is charming, but this is. I think it's the youthful voice and the sparse prose, but Yoshimoto doesn't pull her punches for all that.