Convenience Store Woman
Grove Press · first published 2016 · 192 pages
A woman of thirty-six has worked at the same convenience store for eighteen years and feels most at home behind its counter.
Short, deadpan, and often funny, it follows the store's chimes and routines with a strange, exact clarity.
For a night walk past bright shop windows.
About this book
Keiko Furukura has never quite understood what people expect of her, but the store's manual tells her exactly how to speak, smile, and stock shelves. Family and old friends keep asking when she will marry or find a proper job. When a bitter, newly hired coworker drifts into her life, she makes an unusual arrangement to quiet the questions. What lingers is a sharp, funny look at what counts as a normal life.