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A review by teavani
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
3.0
3.5? idk
follows Keiko Furukura, a 36 year old woman who’s worked in the same convenience store for 18 years and comments on the expectations society has for adulthood, adult relationships, and adult careers
i get why this might be considered an unlikeable character but the guy incel in this is definitely a lot more insufferable. to me the protagonist is kind of (?) relatable in a way. like everyone wants her to get married and settle down and get a better job/make a career but she just wants to work at the store and vibe and people keep bothering her and she’s annoyed by it which makes sense. also did like that it was super quick and easy to read
my first real venture into the woman vs. the void of existence genre and i am pretty okay with it - nothing stellar but i didn’t not like it. ending was very mediocre imo but i guess that’s the point.
quotes!
The normal world has no room for exceptions and always quietly eliminates foreign objects. Anyone who is lacking is disposed of. So that’s why I need to be cured. Unless I’m cured, normal people will expurgate me. Finally I understood why my family had tried so hard to fix me (80-81).
So the manual for life already existed. It was just that it was already ingrained in everyone’s heads, and there wasn’t any need to put it in writing. The specific form of what is considered an “ordinary person” had been there all along, unchanged since prehistoric times I finally realized (98).
She’s far happier thinking her sister is normal, even if she has a lot of problems, than she is having an abormal sister for whom everything is fine. For her, normality - however messy - is far more comprehensible (133).
Before me now was a human male, mindlessly hoping that one of the same species was going to breed (142).
follows Keiko Furukura, a 36 year old woman who’s worked in the same convenience store for 18 years and comments on the expectations society has for adulthood, adult relationships, and adult careers
i get why this might be considered an unlikeable character but the guy incel in this is definitely a lot more insufferable. to me the protagonist is kind of (?) relatable in a way. like everyone wants her to get married and settle down and get a better job/make a career but she just wants to work at the store and vibe and people keep bothering her and she’s annoyed by it which makes sense. also did like that it was super quick and easy to read
my first real venture into the woman vs. the void of existence genre and i am pretty okay with it - nothing stellar but i didn’t not like it. ending was very mediocre imo but i guess that’s the point.
quotes!
The normal world has no room for exceptions and always quietly eliminates foreign objects. Anyone who is lacking is disposed of. So that’s why I need to be cured. Unless I’m cured, normal people will expurgate me. Finally I understood why my family had tried so hard to fix me (80-81).
So the manual for life already existed. It was just that it was already ingrained in everyone’s heads, and there wasn’t any need to put it in writing. The specific form of what is considered an “ordinary person” had been there all along, unchanged since prehistoric times I finally realized (98).
She’s far happier thinking her sister is normal, even if she has a lot of problems, than she is having an abormal sister for whom everything is fine. For her, normality - however messy - is far more comprehensible (133).
Before me now was a human male, mindlessly hoping that one of the same species was going to breed (142).