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Convenience Store Woman - Sayaka Murata

Thirty-six-year-old Furukura Keiko is single and very introverted. She has always been a strange girl, which is why she decided to try to conform to the expectations of society and family by dropping out of school to work in a konbini, a small Japanese convenience store open 24/7. This is where she has been employed for eighteen years, on a part-time contract. Her parents and few childhood friends are worried about her and hope that sooner or later she can settle down and start a family. Keiko, however, seems unable to conform to the norm; she has always behaved 'differently', to put it mildly. And it is with this non-conformist spirit that she paradoxically confronts everything in the circumscribed universe of the konbini, to which she devotes herself in the most absolute way. She has found her place in the world right here, where everything happens as if it were written in a manual and it is enough to stick to the rules to be efficient, the best shop assistant possible. That is, until she meets Shiraha, a strange new 35-year-old colleague in search of a wife, who is convinced that the world has stopped in prehistoric times… Could this be Keiko's chance to leave her beloved konbini and finally start a family, fulfilling the expectations of her loved ones? Or will the world of the konbini, with its precise rules and unique symbolic value, prevail?

Furukura, the protagonist, would be the new Ted Bundy if she were given the opportunity to simply be herself, but as luck would have it, Japanese society is hell if you are outside the norm or are unluckily over 30 without a partner (with a full-time job).

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