Asako Yuzuki was born in Tokyo in 1981. For Hooked, she received the Yamamoto Shūgorō Award. Inspired by the real case of a convicted con woman and serial killer—the “Konkatsu Killer”—Asako Yuzuki’s Butter is a vivid, unsettling exploration of misogyny, obsession, romance, and the transgressive pleasures of food in Japan.