I recently read Butter by Asako Yuzuki.
If anyone has heard of a film called Compulsion, or the Korean versions, there's a plot in those about a chubby woman becoming obsessed with her anorexic neighbour, fattening them up and eventually eating them. I thought this butter book would be something similar.
It wasn't really. The main character gains weight because she starts eating things with butter (she's a reporter and her serial killer subject is fat by Japanese standards and says it's worth doing). Over the course of the book she balloons to the heiferific size of 60kgs, which is about 120lbs on a 5"5 Asian.š The book supposedly criticised fatphobia but the girl weighs ten kilos more at the end than my ideal lowest goal weight (and I'm only a 5"7 man)
The book has a bit of a focus on the murder side of the mystery but it's not a murder mystery, it's "an examination of internalised mysoginy in Japan" type book that I honestly can't recommend in good faith to anyone. š„± shame really coz all the marketing makes it out to be a proper murder mystery type book and you'd think it'd be a bit more like Compulsion 2 than what it ended up being.