A review by peeled_grape
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata

4.0

This one was surprisingly hard to put down. The protagonist shows a kind of neurodiversity -- we're never told what, exactly -- who deals with adapting to other people's expectations of her. We get a close first-person perspective, so we get all of her thoughts, and the novel does a really great job of showing the logic Keiko walks herself through. This is the most interesting part of the novel: her logic, the way she acts in social situations, how she interacts with others. It reminds me so much of Stephen Florida except that it is more explicit about everything.