Convenience Store Woman in Around the World in 80 Books

Apr 11, 2020 Deb (Readerbuzz) Nance rated it liked it · review of another edition

Keiko was odd. Even when she was a child, she was odd. As an adult, she took a job at a convenience store and she stayed there for years and years, and no one stays at a job at a convenience store. She loves her job at the convenience store.

You won’t meet a person quite like Keiko and you won’t read a story quite like this one.

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Dec 15, 2020 Lindsey Z rated it liked it · review of another edition

2.75 🌟

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Mar 01, 2019 Fee rated it really liked it · review of another edition

“When something was strange, everyone thought they had the right to come stomping in all over your life to figure out why. I found that arrogant and infuriating, not to mention a pain in the neck. Sometimes I even wanted to hit them with a shovel to shut them up, like I did that time in elementary school. But I recalled how upset my sister had been when I’d casually mentioned this to her before and kept my mouth shut.”

This is such an odd wee book. A quick read, ultimately because not a lot happe ...more

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Mar 11, 2019 Lisa of Hopewell rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: audio-books, read-in-2019, mmd-summer-read-g, translated-into-english

How I Found This Book

I first read about this book in The Guardian, but it was a tweet this week from The Book Satchel that made me pick it up. She mentioned it in a discussion of the book Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine. Thank you!
The Story

Keiko is a mid-30’s woman who stays outside the norms of Japanese society by not being married and only having a part-time job in a convenience store. She has long struggled to understand “normal.” When she accidentally shares something from her life that ...more

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