![]() ![]() However, eighteen years later, at age 36, she is still in the same job, has never had a boyfriend, and has only a handful of friends. “In the convenience store she finds a predictable world mandated by the store manual, which dictates how the workers should act and what they should say, and she copies her coworkers’ style of dress and speech patterns so that she can play the part of a normal person. ![]() ![]() (Murata, the author, though successful, still works part time in a convenience store, which was the inspiration to write this book.) The novel centers on Keiko Furukura, a thirty-six-year-old Japanese woman who works at a convenience store (part-time. You may have seen the hardcover book featuring a kawaii rice ball with a woman’s face at bookstores but don’t be fooled by its cutesy, light blue and cherry-blossom pink jacket Convenience Store Woman is a novel that is hilarious yet hopeless, heavily loaded with sharp criticism towards Japanese society. ![]()
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