Comments on Lunch Date: The Gift of Rain

You should read Yokohama Burning.

The representative quote is really, really off-putting to me. Post a follow-up (if you can) if you make it through the book.

@2: That's the thing! There's no good representative quote. Maybe it's telling of my inability to read non-snappy writing or something, but I'm getting the sense that I'm reading something that's intended to be serious and literary and is instead just not interesting. But I will post a follow-up if I can, if I do.

You've got to order the right things at La Puerta-- it's owned and operated by an awesome Mexican family from Guadalajara and they're as authentic as it gets.

However, a lot of their menu caters to whitey. Order the tacos and you're bound to be disappointed. Order the mole or the cochinita pibil and you'll swoon.

Give 'em another try! Seriously, you won't be disappointed.

You're right--I love this book and have read it twice, but can't pull an individual "representative quote" that gives a sound bite for this book. The observations and descriptions stop me in my reading tracks with the world and the thoughts that they evoke, but they are part of a fictional fabric, tightly woven to form a cohesive picture. Pulling them apart does the novel no service.