Butter

Asako Yuzuki's award-winning, internationally acclaimed novel, translated from Japanese. A journalist becomes fascinated by a woman on trial for the suspected murders of several lonely men, all of whom she seduced with her extraordinary home cooking. As the journalist grows closer to the accused, she's forced to confront her own relationship with food, femininity, and the impossible expectations placed on women. A sharp, sensory, deeply unsettling literary novel about hunger in every sense of the word, and one of the standout translated-fiction hits of recent years.