Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata: Offbeat Celebration of Non-Conformity

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Rating: 3 stars Category: Literary fiction Synopsis: Keiko Furukura has worked in the same convenience store for eighteen years. She feels at home in the store with its comforting daily rhythms, but those around her are pushing her to move on in her career, get married, have children. Tired of their interference, Keiko decides, at last, to give "normality" a shot...with disastrous consequences.