The Premonition by Banana Yoshimoto PBThe internationally beloved author of Kitchen and Dead End Memories returns with a beautiful and heartfelt story of a young woman haunted by her childhood and the inescapable bitterness that inevitably comes from knowing the truth "There's a matter of factness to Yoshimoto's prose that would feel stultifying if it weren't so mischievous Yoshimoto bucks beautifully against convention" New York Times Book Review Yayoi, a 19 year old woman from a