![]() ![]() Keiko has never fit in, neither in her family, nor in school, but when at the age of eighteen she begins working at the Hiiromachi branch of “Smile Mart,” she finds peace and purpose in her life. Book BlurbĬonvenience Store Woman is the heartwarming and surprising story of thirty-six-year-old Tokyo resident Keiko Furukura. The writing style itself was fine, but I could not get with the story. ![]() I’d still see it, but not as often.īut, on this strange day when I ran across it in the library, I chose to bring it home with me. By this point, the hype had died down, and the book was resigned to merely appearing on “Best of the Year” book lists or “Asian Women in Translation” lists. I remembered it’s title because it had literally been everywhere. I’m very picky about my book covers, but that’s another story.Īnd so, one day when I was wandering the library pre-pandemic, I found this book nestled in the fiction section. I didn’t originally get it, because I thought the cover was honestly terrible and unappealing. Every single time I opened up my bot Instagram, whenever I opened BookTube, and whenever I browsed the Asian literature in translation hashtags, every single person was literally talking about Convenience Store Woman. ![]() Everyone had been talking about this book for months. ![]()
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