02217cam a2200421 i 4500 872518146 TxAuBib 20230626120000.0 181008s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780802129628 0802129625 TxAuBib rda eng jpn Murata, Sayaka, 1979-, author. Conbini ningen English https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2017067469. Convenience store woman / Sayaka Murata ; translated from the Japanese by Ginny Tapley Takemori. First Grove Atlantic paperback edition. New York, NY : Grove Press, 2019. 172 pages ; 18 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "September 2019"--Title page verso. "An international sensation that has sold more than a million copies in Japan and was named a Best Book of the Year by U.S. publications from Buzzfeed to the New Yorker, Convenience Store Woman is the charming and unforgettable story of Tokyo sales clerk Keiko Furukura. Keiko is an unusual person, someone who has never fit in, but when she takes a job at a 'Smile Mart' she finally finds peace and purpose in her daily tasks. But there is huge pressure on Keiko--to pursue a career, to find a husband--and she feels forced to take desperate action in order to please the people around her instead of herself. Is there room in this 'normal' world for someone as strange as Keiko?"--Publisher description. 20230626. In English, translated from the Japanese. Single women Japan Social conditions Fiction. Convenience stores Japan Fiction. Self-realization in women Fiction. Conformity Fiction. Asexual people Fiction. Man-woman relationships Fiction. Japan Social conditions 21st century Fiction. Japan Social life and customs Fiction. Fiction. Fiction. Takemori, Ginny Tapley, translator.