Let the Right One in, John Ajvide Lindqvist, translated by Ebba Segerberg

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A messed-up young boy who gets picked on in school meets a kid his age who turns out to be a vampire, and a friendship develops. The vampire's arrival makes the already sad lives of the people around her even worse.

This book is bleak as fuck. There are some interludes of really black humor, though.