{"product_id":"the-ex-boyfriends-favorite-recipe-funeral-committee","title":"The Ex-Boyfriend's Favorite Recipe Funeral Committee","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat ingredients do you need to cure a broken heart? This\nsoul-nourishing comfort read is for anyone who has loved and lost—and wants to\nlove again.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nTwenty-nine-year-old Momoko has been tragically dumped. She thought her\nboyfriend was her soulmate. She believed he was going to propose. Instead, he\nbroke things off at a love hotel.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nSo Momoko does what many broken-hearted people do—she gets incredibly drunk. So\ndrunk that she passes out in a nearly empty café. When she awakens, she’s eager\nto tell her story to anyone who will listen and pours her heart out to a\ncurious manager and the sole other customer in the café, a Buddhist monk in\ntraining. As Momoko describes how she doted on her ex and how he loved her\ncooking, the manager decides to indulge her by allowing her to slip into the\nkitchen and cook up her former beau’s favorite dish: a warm, delightful butter\nchicken curry.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nAs Momoko finishes telling her story, she realizes that this combination of\ncooking and sharing has stopped the flow of her constant tears. And the manager\nhas a brilliant idea.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nWhat if they started doing this regularly, inviting patrons to share stories\nabout heartbreak while cooking dishes that held significance in their\nrelationships? Thus, an unconventional therapy group, the “Ex-Boyfriend’s\nFavorite Recipe Funeral Committee,” is born.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nBased on the author’s viral heartbreak story, this is a charming novel (with\nrecipes) about a woman who uses the power of a warm meal to bring together the\nfellow lonely hearts in this small suburb of Tokyo.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eSaki Kawashiro was born in Tokyo, Japan. An avid\nreader, after graduating from college she worked as a bookseller in Fukuoka, in\nSouthern Japan. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eWhile manager of the store’s cafe she invented a recipe for\nthe café menu—“My Ex-Boyfriend’s Favorite Butter Chicken Curry”—which included\na vignette about their breakup, which went viral. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eAuthor Toshikazu Kawaguchi (\u003ci\u003eBefore the Coffee Gets Cold\u003c\/i\u003e)\nmade an appearance at her bookstore and Mr. Kawaguchi’s editor inspired Saki to\nwrite a novel about her adventures, and she became Saki’s editor. The result\nis \u003ci\u003eThe Ex-Boyfriend’s Favorite Recipe Funeral Committee\u003c\/i\u003e, which is\nSaki’s first novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PANSING DISTRIBUTION PTE LTD","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44723374784719,"sku":"9798217088188","price":34.95,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0574\/5662\/3823\/files\/download_ce5cf38f-2cec-4534-8309-a243bc698fc0.jpg?v=1773643083","url":"https:\/\/popular.baby\/products\/the-ex-boyfriends-favorite-recipe-funeral-committee","provider":"Popular Book Company Pte Ltd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}