Convenience Store Woman: A Novel

“When morning comes, once again I'm a convenience store worker, a cog in society. This is the only way I can be a normal person.”

Such a beautiful story about self-acceptance

As the name of the novel implied, the female store worker who are born to be a store worker no matter what she did in everyday life, will not fall to the influence of other people words to get a proper job Human parasite living off other people’s life by being unemployed and taking advantage Sayaka’s literary fiction meticulosly written!!

she’s so goated. i had to stop reading every few minutes to highlight a line and think: MY GOAT

this book was very unique and slightly off putting. i enjoyed it and i think i’ll think about it for a while. i liked the extra essay at the end.

thinking about this more… it feels like maybe this book was just a way to say “hey look at this kind of person!” and see what people’s reactions are. because seeing the reactions on goodreads in different reviews (some think it’s funny, some are horrified, etc) has honestly done more for me than just reading the book did. so maybe useful as a discussion piece!

edit: just read some reviews and maybe 3 stars…. it’s hard for me to say. i originally gave it 4 because it was strong in its vibes like it really was just one thing but maybe that’s not worth a whole star