Hooked by Asako Yuzuki | Paperback

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📖 About this Book
Eriko seems to have the kind of life people are supposed to envy. She has devoted parents, a spotless apartment and an impressive job in the seafood division of one of Japan’s biggest trading companies. But underneath all that perfection, she is painfully lonely. 
Then she discovers Shōko, a housewife whose popular blog is everything Eriko’s life is not. Shōko writes openly about convenience-store meals, her messy home and the ordinary frustrations of daily life. Eriko becomes fascinated with her, tracks her down and engineers a meeting.
At first, their friendship feels like exactly what Eriko has been missing. Then admiration turns into fixation, and Eriko’s need to hold on to Shōko becomes increasingly unsettling. Hooked explores female friendship, loneliness, obsession, food and modern womanhood in contemporary Japan. 
 
❤️ Why Sumaia Recommends It
This one feels like the darker, more unsettling cousin of Butter.
I love books about complicated female friendships, especially when the relationship slowly becomes uncomfortable and obsessive. The tension here is not the loud, murder-every-three-pages kind of thriller. It creeps up on you through loneliness, jealousy, dependency and that awful feeling that one person wants far more from the friendship than the other.
And because this is Asako Yuzuki, food is woven through everything in such an interesting way. Strange little human obsessions apparently cannot simply exist without snacks being involved.
 
✨ Perfect For
🇯🇵 Japanese fiction lovers
🖤 Dark female friendships
👀 Obsession stories
🍜 Food-centred fiction
🧠 Psychological fiction
😰 Unsettling reads
💭 Character-driven stories
🌃 Contemporary Japan
💔 Stories about loneliness
🪞 Complicated women
🔥 Slow-building tension
📚 Fans of Butter
 
📦 What’s Included
📕 Hooked by Asako Yuzuki
✔ 1 Paperback Book
✔ Condition: Brand New
✔ Translated by Polly Barton
📦 Ships across the UAE, GCC & Middle East