Convenience Store Woman
by Sayaka Murata · 2016
Literary Fiction · ranked #163 in category
Keiko Furukura has worked in the same Tokyo convenience store for eighteen years — and she is happy, having found in the store's routines and scripts a way of performing humanity that society otherwise denies her. Murata's short novel is a deadpan, unsettling comedy about conformity, the pressure to marry and reproduce, and what counts as a normal life.
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