La ragazza del convenience store

‘ Unless I’m cured, normal people will expurgate me. ’ In 2020 the “essential worker” became a hot topic of conversation. As the world shut down, the essential worker stocked shelves, collected trash, took temperatures and kept society going. Yet, for all the praise justly bestowed upon them, these are Leggi tutto

Keiko has worked at the convenience store her entire adult life. But as she nears 40, the pressure to find a “real” job or get married is mounting – what sort of life awaits Keiko outside the comfort zone of the store and will she step out to meet it? I feel like there’s a good novel somewhere in Co Leggi tutto

You learn something new every day. Maybe sometimes that thing is a life skill, like how to drive, or something classically school-related, like how to speak Spanish. https://emmareadstoomuch.substack.com... I do not know how to do either of those things, but I do now know that I apparently like readin Leggi tutto

I am somewhat taken aback by the quotes plastered around this novel that reiterate just how funny it is. I have a dangerously weak spot for deadpan humour, but I do have to...worry about those to read Convenience Store Woman and found humour in it. This has to be one of the most relentlessly dep

A quick and easy read with an endearing narrator who doesn't fit societal expectations of what an adult "should" be. There were lots of funny deadpan moments (like her constant shade at the incel dude), but ultimately it reflects conformist society and how people impose their ideals for marriage and Leggi tutto

A quirky novel about a 36 year old woman who works in a convenience store and cannot conceive herself beyond her job. But this is also about a woman who doesn’t know how to be human in the way others expect her too. At times funny, at times sad, always compelling.

Irasshaimase! Keiko Furukura is the perfect convenience store worker. Ever since she read the employee manual she knows exactly what she needs to do, how to behave, what to say, and when. Sadly life doesn’t come with a manual, and Furukura outside of work doesn’t know what to do with her life. Nev Leggi tutto

I enjoyed the beginning but I felt like the author could have gone further with the social commentary.

This is a popular new book you have probably heard of. It’s short, almost a novella, by a Japanese woman author. The blurbs call it ‘darkly comic.’ Keiko is 36 and she has been working part-time in a convenience store in Tokyo for 18 years. She’s an excellent worker – a dream employee who loves her j Leggi tutto