The well-prepared dishes becomes an excuse of breaking up. Is it an excuse of a new sweetheart or failure to be frank for the sake of love? The taste of eggplant in the memory is the taste of love. What's more frightening than 'death' is 'gossip'? Is the cake at the Farewell Party a product of office struggle or a result of human nature distortion? Is the violent nature of the son an instinct, or another story? Grief Canteen tells that behind the stories are the broken heart and unspoken annoyance. In the end, they all find the answer to happiness in the canteen.
Kei Aono was born in 1959 in Nagoya, Japan and studied at Tokyo Art university. After starting her career at an anime magazine, she worked as an editor at a publishing company. In 2006 she made her fiction debut with The Reason I Won't Quit, and in 2014 Bookstore Girls won the Grand Prize in the "Book I want made into a movie" category at the Shizuoka Bookstore Awards. It went on to be adapted for television, sell 200,000 copies and lay the ground for six sequels.