Convenience Store Woman

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......more

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. [URL not allowed] I do not know how to do either of those things, but I do now know that I apparently like readin......more

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......more

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......more

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.......more