Craft Curry Brothers Shibuya

A Year of Food in Fiction - Eater SF

"I was first turned onto My Brother’s Husband by Soleil Ho, whom I knew from her excellent anime and manga newsletter even before she became the food critic at our local paper of record. When Yaichi, a single dad raising his young daughter in Tokyo, hosts his deceased brother’s husband — a kind, genial Canadien named Mike Flanagan — Yaichi is forced to reckon with his own prejudices, discomfort, and homophobia. Newly available this year in one super-sized, translated volume, this one had me in tears for long stretches of its second half. A big part of how Mike and Yoichi’s family build connections is through food: a burbling pot of Japanese curry, Purin pudding inhaled through a straw, ankake yakisoba, and even Kraft macaroni and cheese." - Luke Tsai