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A review by ladybugwrites
Butter by Asako Yuzuki
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
If anyone sells this book to you as a crime novel, you'll be thoroughly disappointed. (It's clear now that this is a marketing failure to me - though I did not go into it thinking crime novel nor was that the reason I bought the book either). This is a literary work of fiction insipired by a true story that, whilst has a crime a the center of it's plot, is not actually about that crime.
This is a book about misogny, beauty standards, obsession, and, most of all, food. This is a book about food in modern (Japanese) society; our relationship with it, beauty standards and their ties to food, and the pleasures of eating good food. It's about what healthy means, and it's about how we live our lives - like we want to or how we're expected to.
And the greatest thing about it, is that it shows that there is no right answer. It doesn't show what is the right way to live, doesn't give the impression our MC, Rika, has figured it out. Rather it shows that what is "right" is about what is right for you, and that the right things is do live life the way you want to.
A great fucking book.
(The drawbacks are that it had some part I thought unnecessary, and maybe it was longer than it needed to be, but those are minor details that get lost in how great of a book it is.)
This is a book about misogny, beauty standards, obsession, and, most of all, food. This is a book about food in modern (Japanese) society; our relationship with it, beauty standards and their ties to food, and the pleasures of eating good food. It's about what healthy means, and it's about how we live our lives - like we want to or how we're expected to.
And the greatest thing about it, is that it shows that there is no right answer. It doesn't show what is the right way to live, doesn't give the impression our MC, Rika, has figured it out. Rather it shows that what is "right" is about what is right for you, and that the right things is do live life the way you want to.
A great fucking book.
(The drawbacks are that it had some part I thought unnecessary, and maybe it was longer than it needed to be, but those are minor details that get lost in how great of a book it is.)