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Convenience Store Woman
by Sayaka Murata
This was a perfect, short read after finishing A Little Life at less than 170 pages.
It's a tough book to review as not much really happens. We follow Keiko a 36 year old woman who has spent the last 18 years in a dead end part-time job at a convenience store.
She loves her work and takes pride in being able to do it well and pleasing the customers. But everyone around her is telling her it isn't normal for someone to still be unmarried and working this job at her age.
Keiko learns to copy the way her colleagues speak to make her more 'socially acceptable'. She discusses excuses she can use for being in the job she's in with her sister. But still, she is seen as odd.
Convenience Store Woman was an interesting read. It wasn't necessarily as funny as I expected from some of the quotes on it. There were moments I laughed, but there were also moments of sadness really at the way Keiko was treated.
Some of her observations and interactions were incredibly funny though and the book felt like a breath of fresh air after my last read.
It's a tough book to review as not much really happens. We follow Keiko a 36 year old woman who has spent the last 18 years in a dead end part-time job at a convenience store.
She loves her work and takes pride in being able to do it well and pleasing the customers. But everyone around her is telling her it isn't normal for someone to still be unmarried and working this job at her age.
Keiko learns to copy the way her colleagues speak to make her more 'socially acceptable'. She discusses excuses she can use for being in the job she's in with her sister. But still, she is seen as odd.
Convenience Store Woman was an interesting read. It wasn't necessarily as funny as I expected from some of the quotes on it. There were moments I laughed, but there were also moments of sadness really at the way Keiko was treated.
Some of her observations and interactions were incredibly funny though and the book felt like a breath of fresh air after my last read.