Convenience Store Woman

Name: Convenience Store Woman
Rating: 3 (1 reviews)
Author: Sayaka Murata
ISBN: 9780802128256

Sayaka Murata • 2016

Devastation Rating

Ugly Crying

loneliness literary fiction philosophical

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Keiko has worked in the same convenience store for eighteen years and sees nothing wrong with this. Murata writes the loneliness of not fitting into any category society offers — not sad, not happy, just functional. The quiet horror is not Keiko's life but everyone else's insistence that it is wrong.

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► Books About Loneliness — The Quiet Devastation ► Japanese Literature of Loss — The Grief Beneath the Surface

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