Asako Yuzuki writes women she knows you won’t like. ‘Butter’ and ‘Hooked’ are proof she won’t stop
From her early work, ‘Forget Me, Not Blue’, to the award-winning Butter and now Hooked, Yuzuki has constructed a world where female friendships begin to unfurl. Exchanges between women are taut as they size each other up based on ideas borrowed from men, and compare their bodies and successes in the workplace and at home. In her novels, as it is in the real world, women’s bodies are no longer theirs for pleasure and joy. They become flawed, insatiable and in need of constant correction through d...
