of their family. However, she moves out after six months as she finds a new job as a culinary teacher's assistant. When she finds that Eriko was murdered, she tries to support Yuichi through the difficult time, and realises that Yuichi is probably in love with her. Reluctant to face her own feelings for him, she goes away to Izu for a work assignment, while Yuichi stays in a guest-house. However, after going to a restaurant to eat katsudon, she realises she wants to bring it to Yuichi. She goes to Yuichi’s guest-house and sneaks inside his room in the middle of the night to bring him katsudon. There Mikage tells him she doesn’t want to lose him and proposes to build a new life together. In Moonlight Shadow, a woman named Satsuki loses her boyfriend Hitoshi in an accident and tells us: "The night he died my soul went away to some other place and I couldn't bring it back". She becomes friendly with his brother Hiiragi, whose girlfriend died in the same crash. On one insomniac night out walking she meets a strange woman called Urara who has also lost someone. Urara introduces her to the mystical experience of The Weaver Festival Phenomenon, which she hopes will cauterize their collective grief. Book Summary A young woman, Mikage, has lost her grandmother whom she had lived with. She describes the difficulty of the deaths of her family members and how the kitchen was always a place of comfort in these situations. Mikage is left with her grandmothers apartment, which was too expensive just for her. Mikage is later invited to dinner by Yuichi Tanabe, a man who worked at a flower shop where her grandmother visited and who had helped at her funeral. When Mikage arrives at Yuichi Tanabe's house, she first notices the kitchen, how it was bare and looked "out of a commercial". As they wait for Tanabe's mother to arrive from work, Mikage explores the kitchen, a traditional kitchen with used appliances and kitchen ware. Yuichi talks about how he invited Mikage over to help her through a hard time and his relationship with her grandmother. Eriko, Yuichi's mother returns from work and meets Mikage. Eriko is a beautiful woman who we learn was a man. We learn her name was Yuji and we learn about how she was married to Yuchi's mother who passed when