"Authors like to talk vaguely of structuring their books 'like music,' but they should all look to Susan Uehara Rakstang for how to do it right! Basing Cooking for Her Eyes on her own harmonic analysis of Beethoven's Pathetique sonata, she subtly but unmistakably weaves her own themes and key changes into a memoir that is deeply personal and filled with life's tiny details. [...] It's a wonderful, subtly crafted accomplishment of a memoir. It is about the quiet, heartbreaking beauty of the mundane details. The everyday and ordinary made extraordinary and precious."

—Dr. David Arbury, PhD, composer and professor of music theory, Los Angeles City College

"This book has so many wonderful different layers to draw in the reader. A beautiful memoir of life, death, and relationships, Susan's is an empowering story of finding one's place in the world and shows her personal Japanese American experience—a powerful thing for the community, and a valuable glimpse into that community for all audiences. Like all good books, it was bittersweet to arrive at its ending!"

—Michael Takada, CEO of the Japanese American Service Committee

"Cooking for her Eyes is a generous invitation, a moving walk through time revealing Susan's intelligence in terms of character development and attention to the right details. A passionate reading experience is the result: between essential vicissitudes and raw power of the senses, this book is proof of life, undisputably."

—Marc Louis-Boyard, founder and editor of Slow Culture Magazine