![]() ![]() She is struggling to fit in, struggling to make sense of a world that itself makes no sense. “…I still don’t have a clue how to be a normal person outside the manual.”īut despite all her eccentricities, Keiko is a relatable character. Here, with it’s employee training and strict guidelines of behaving, she is able to relish in the joy of being common. The setting of the store fulfills Keiko’s plan. Hence, she comes up with a solution: Copy the speech patterns, dressing sense and mannerisms of her co-workers. But she doesn’t want others around her to know the full extent of it. An innate, almost involuntary lack of normalcy. She doesn’t mind her existence but others around her constantly question and abhor it. She is a 36 year old unmarried woman working part-time at a convenience store. She is an imperfect anomaly in a world of perfection, Japan. Keeping this in mind, if there is anything you can expect from convenience store woman is it’s unrivalled authenticity and brutal honesty. ![]() ![]() During this time, Sayaka Murata wrote and published 11 novels and only left her job after this book gained critical and commercial acclaim. The author of a book about a convenience store worker was a store worker herself for the same duration as her protagonist, 18 years. ![]()
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