Convenience Store Woman Convenience Store Woman

Convenience Store Woman

A Novel

    • 3.9 • 299 Ratings
    • $9.99
    • $9.99

Publisher Description

The English-language debut of one of Japan’s most talented contemporary writers, selling over 650,000 copies there, Convenience Store Woman is the heartwarming and surprising story of thirty-six-year-old Tokyo resident Keiko Furukura. Keiko has never fit in, neither in her family, nor in school, but when at the age of eighteen she begins working at the Hiiromachi branch of “Smile Mart,” she finds peace and purpose in her life. In the store, unlike anywhere else, she understands the rules of social interaction—many are laid out line by line in the store’s manual—and she does her best to copy the dress, mannerisms, and speech of her colleagues, playing the part of a “normal” person excellently, more or less. Managers come and go, but Keiko stays at the store for eighteen years. It’s almost hard to tell where the store ends and she begins. Keiko is very happy, but the people close to her, from her family to her coworkers, increasingly pressure her to find a husband, and to start a proper career, prompting her to take desperate action…




A brilliant depiction of an unusual psyche and a world hidden from view, Convenience Store Woman is an ironic and sharp-eyed look at contemporary work culture and the pressures to conform, as well as a charming and completely fresh portrait of an unforgettable heroine.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2018
June 12
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
176
Pages
PUBLISHER
Grove Atlantic
SELLER
Perseus Books, LLC
SIZE
6.7
MB

Customer Reviews

JR6! ,

Strange but compelling

I enjoyed this oddball of a novel, although the ending was abrupt.

Brenda-Laure ,

Access

I want to read more of the book, but I bought it and it’s not giving me the full content. I don’t get it.

Icareitmatters ,

Highly recommend

The best book I have read since the year started. Highly recommend, definitely triggers certain emotions or thoughts in your own head.

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