Menu of Happiness

Another round of requests arrives at the Kamogawa Diner, where a forgotten recipe is the thread back to a person or a place. Menu of Happiness is the third entry in Hisashi Kashiwai's Kamogawa Food Detectives sequence and keeps the format that made the earlier books work. Visitors describe a dish they once ate, and the father-and-daughter cooks set about rebuilding it from fragments of memory. Jesse Kirkwood's English translation preserves the unhurried rhythm of the original. Suspense is not the engine here; forgiveness, family ties and the steadying effect of a familiar meal are. What buyers should know: • Third book in the Kamogawa Food Detectives sequence • English translation by Jesse Kirkwood • Stand-alone chapters, each centred on a single visitor's request • A calm register that suits short reading sessions Suits readers who enjoy Japanese healing fiction and cosy, character-led storytelling, stocked at Boipoka.