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Convenience Store Woman

A Novel

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 “An exhilaratingly weird and funny Japanese novel about a long-term convenience store employee. Unsettling and totally unpredictable—my copy is now heavily underlined.” —Sally Rooney, The Guardian

Selling over a million copies in Japan and named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, BuzzFeed, and many other publications, Convenience Store Woman is both delightfully strange and oddly heartwarming. Keiko Furukura is thirty-six, and she has been happily working at a Tokyo “Smile Mart” for eighteen years, fitting in by copying her colleagues’ dress and mannerisms, playing the part of a “normal person” excellently—more or less. But her packaged idyll is threatened by mounting pressure to find a husband and a proper career, prompting her to take desperate action to protect her peaceful world. Charming and unforgettable, Convenience Store Woman is an international sensation by a brilliant writer whose work is finally being recognized outside of her native country. Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Women's Fiction World Literature Funny Heartfelt Employment Marriage
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Oh man, do I ever feel seen.
I’ve never connected to a character more than Keiko.

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As a woman who lives a bit of an unconventional life and has been working at a convenience store for many years, i can say this book captures the life of a dedicated store worker perfectly . Many would describe me as tad unhinged myself. The store has a soul of its own created by a combination of the energy of all who work and shop in it. I loved this book.

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