Hooked

Literary Fiction / Thriller

12/03/2026

If you read Butter, you already know Asako Yuzuki doesn't write polite, well-behaved women. Her new novel dives right back into the complex and obsessive underbelly of Japanese society. It’s an uncomfortable look at consumption, the claustrophobia of societal expectations and what happens when the pressure to be perfect finally makes you snap. It is compulsive and perfectly captures the specific hunger of wanting something, or someone, way too much.

Asako Yuzuki is an award-winning Japanese author who has built a career out of deconstructing the terrifying, unapologetic desires of women who refuse to play by the rules.