What ingredients do you need to cure a broken heart? This soul-nourishing comfort read is for anyone who has loved and lostand wants to love again.

Twenty-nine-year-old Momoko has been tragically dumped. She thought her boyfriend was her soulmate. She believed he was going to propose. Instead, he broke things off at a love hotel.

So Momoko does what many broken-hearted people doshe gets incredibly drunk. So drunk that she passes out in a nearly empty caf. When she awakens, shes eager to tell her story to anyone who will listen and pours her heart out to a curious manager and the sole other customer in the caf, a Buddhist monk in training. As Momoko describes how she doted on her ex and how he loved her cooking, the manager decides to indulge her by allowing her to slip into the kitchen and cook up her former beaus favorite dish: a warm, delightful butter chicken curry.

As Momoko finishes telling her story, she realizes that this combination of cooking and sharing has stopped the flow of her constant tears. And the manager has a brilliant idea.

What if they started doing this regularly, inviting patrons to share stories about heartbreak while cooking dishes that held significance in their relationships? Thus, an unconventional therapy group, the Ex-Boyfriends Favorite Recipe Funeral Committee, is born.

Based on the authors viral heartbreak story, this is a charming novel (with recipes) about a woman who uses the power of a warm meal to bring together the fellow lonely hearts in this small suburb of Tokyo.