Female loners abound in contemporary Japanese fiction: Sayaka Murata’s quiet misfits masking their incomprehension of social mores, Mieko Kawakami’s traumatized teens and women living on the margins.
To this melancholy mix arrive the protagonists of Asako Yuzuki’s “Hooked,” translated by Polly Barton and released this month.
Hooked, by Asako Yuzuki. Translated by Polly Barton.?400?pages. HARPERCOLLINS, fiction.
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