A review by booksdogsandcoffee
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata

informative reflective fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

This book hit me hard in the feels. It’s a look at Keiko’s life trying to fit into what society deems “normal” as she grows up and works 18 years at a convenience store. She mimics the people around her to seem “normal” so that people don’t try to fix her or don’t ask her why she is weird or at a “dead end job”. Convenience store woman’s is a hard look at how we treat people who don’t fit the status quo in society, capitalism and what is expected of women in our communities. 

Cw/tw
Misogyny 
Bullying 
Violence 
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