A review by marleyrollins
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata

4.0

This was brief and weird and unlike anything I’ve ever read before, but I actually really loved it. I think people who don’t like this book try and attach too much metaphor and meaning to it, when to me it felt like just a sweet story about finding contentment in whatever way you want to. I love that it is totally in opposition to the idea that grinding, being super ambitious, and doing whatever everyone else is doing is the way to find success. I also enjoy that it really dives into what success is- is it not just finding happiness, which the narrator feels while working at the convenience store? I think it is.