For 10 points, name this novel about Mikage Sakurai's love of cooking, by Banana Yoshimoto.
After his wife dies from cancer, an emotionally devastated character in this novel overwaters her pineapple plant until it withers. Near the end of this novel, its protagonist travels hundreds of miles from Izu in a taxi to bring food to her love interest. Two characters in this novel share the same dream about cleaning an apartment and stopping to eat at a ramen shop. Before succumbing to stab wounds inflicted by a patron of the gay bar she owns, this novel's (*) transsexual character Eriko beats her attacker to death with a barbell. The protagonist of this novel, which is almost always published together with its author's novella Moonlit Shadow, falls in love with the flower shop assistant Yuichi while coming to terms with the death of her grandmother. For 10 points, name this novel about Mikage Sakurai's love of cooking, by Banana Yoshimoto.
After his wife dies from cancer, an emotionally devastated character in this novel overwaters her pineapple plant until it withers.
Kitchen [or Kitsuchen]