Kitchen 18th Century In 1950s New York

In 1950s New York

With her job answering fan mail for a teen magazine

a seminal work of political fiction--as relevant today as when it was first published

and The Lover

a showgirl and young widow

Kitchen 18th Century In 1950s New York"Ms. Yoshimoto's writing is lucid, earnest and disarming. . . . [It] seizes hold of the reader's sympathy and refuses to let go." Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times An orphan finds comfort in the kitchen, and in her chosen family, in this classic of contemporary Japanese literature With the publication of Kitchen, the dazzling English language debut that is still her best loved book, the literary world realized that Yoshimoto was a young writer of