Banana Yoshimoto

Banana Yoshimoto is the pen name of Japanese writer Mahoko Yoshimoto, and she writes fiction under the name on the spine. Her books include Kitchen, Goodbye, Tsugumi, and Amrita, along with Lizard, a collection of short stories. Moshi Moshi follows a young woman who moves with her mother to Tokyo's Shimokitazawa after her father's death, and The Lake and N.P. round out her fiction.