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Convenience Store Woman
by Sayaka Murata
📚Literary fiction~176 pages
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Keiko Furukura has worked at the same Tokyo convenience store for eighteen years. She knows the rhythm of the doors, the sales pitch, the perfect arrangement of rice balls, and she has learned to imitate her colleagues' speech and clothes so that she passes as normal. Family and friends keep asking when she will marry or find a real career, and when a bitter new employee enters her life she attempts a solution that satisfies everyone but herself. Funny, deadpan and quietly devastating, Murata's short novel is a sharp, oddly tender study of conformity and of a mind that simply works differently.
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