Squid Game?? I am begging people to expand their minds and find other South Korean media to compare books to. The only similarity this book has to Squid Game is that they're both South Korean. That's it.

This was a weird fucking book, but it used its weirdness to great effect. We follow the life of a shapeshifting alien stranded on Earth, who must shift into a man or woman to meet up with humans for sex before eating them. The alien reflects on gender roles and expectations, on being separate from humans because it can't always meet those gender roles (and also, it's an alien), and on social and cultural expectations people place on each other. All of this, of course, from a South Korean lens - but you can extrapolate it to any culture. 

The book also uses the physical form of the text, sometimes using extra spacing in words for emphasis and disorientation. I liked how the author played with the text in that way. 

Overall this wasn't quite as satisfying a read for me, but it did what it set out to do really well. If you like weird literary fiction and want to branch into translated fiction, this is a pretty good book to check out. 

Content warnings for gore and explicit sexual activity.