Unformatted text preview: from a flower shop and ends up living with him and his transsexual mother. 6. When Yuichi tells Mikage that Eriko is actually his father, that she has changed her sex, Mikage shows great surprise. 7. Mikage’s affection for the kitchen, which is “the place I (she) like best in the world”, reveals that she needs warmth and food to comfort herself. 8. During their first conversation, the beauty of Eriko, which makes Mikage understands the word “charm”, is more like magic than physical....
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- Spring '11
- LanceBeck
- Great Depression, japan, Banana Yoshimoto, Mikage Sakurai
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