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Convenience Store Woman
Sayaka Murata, 2016
Short read, about 160 pagesAkutagawa Prize, 2016.
A woman in Tokyo has worked happily at the same shop for years. Everyone wants her to change.
Talk about it
- Why does the shop make Keiko feel so at home?
- What do the people around her want her to become, and why?
- Where in your own life do you feel pressure to seem normal?
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