Tokyo Love Story
Convenience Store Woman is a Japanese literary sensation about an unconventional woman who finds contentment in an unexpected place
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata just might be the most surprising and unexpected love story you'll ever read. Intriguingly, there's no relationship in the novel between two characters in any conventional sense of a loving narrative; there are no marriages or divorces; there's no mother/father or son/daughter tales of growth and parental/child love; and nobody dies.
Keiko Furukura has never really fit in. At school and university, people find her odd due to her penchant for bizarre actions - at the former, she bashes a boy over the head with a shovel to stop him from fighting. At one point, she even asks her mother if she can cook a dead budgie she has found in the park. Her family, understandably, worries she'll never be normal.
