The idea that a single home-cooked dish could save a person was a delusion. But how much suffering, how much bondage did that delusion cause for women? To think that a badly made meal like this could have saved somebody’s life was arrogant and self-obsessed in the extreme. However hard she tried, Rika couldn’t have erased her father’s loneliness. Playing the good daughter on that day wouldn’t have altered the situation a jot.
