Hooked - Asako Yuzuki Translator: Peter France

Translator: Peter France

will be tested to the limit

They travel to Mexico City

alone with their personal tragedies

The modest apartment on Via Gemito smells of paint and white spirit

Hooked - Asako Yuzuki Translator: Peter FranceEriko's life appears perfect devoted parents, pristine apartment and a high flying job in the seafood division of one of Japan's largest trading companies. Her latest project, to reintroduce the controversial Nile perch fish into the Japanese market, is characteristically ambitious. But beneath her flawless surface she is wracked by loneliness. Eriko becomes fascinated with a popular blog written by a housewife, Shoko. Shokos posts about convenience