{"id":43890,"date":"2018-05-07T11:12:29","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T15:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=43890"},"modified":"2018-05-02T14:19:24","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T18:19:24","slug":"convenience-store-woman-sayaka-murata-translated-ginny-tapley-takemori-booklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/convenience-store-woman-sayaka-murata-translated-ginny-tapley-takemori-booklist\/","title":{"rendered":"Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata, translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori [in Booklist]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-43566\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/02\/Convenience-Store-Woman-by-Sayaka-Murata-on-BookDragon-571x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"571\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/02\/Convenience-Store-Woman-by-Sayaka-Murata-on-BookDragon-571x800.jpg 571w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/02\/Convenience-Store-Woman-by-Sayaka-Murata-on-BookDragon.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 571px) 100vw, 571px\" \/><strong>*STARRED REVIEW<\/strong><br \/>\nIn nursery school, Keiko pragmatically suggested that the dead bird in the park could become a grilled treat for her father. In primary school, she ended a forbidden brawl by hitting a boy on the head with a spade. She stopped a teacher\u2019s hysterics by yanking down her skirt and knickers. Despite having \u201ca normal family,\u201d Keiko \u201cwas a rather strange child\u201d who learned quiet detachment to avoid further trouble.<\/p>\n<p>At 18, she is \u201creborn as a convenience store worker\u201d at a newly opened Smile Mart. Donning a uniform, learning the manual, and mimicking her coworkers enable Keiko to become \u201ca normal cog in society.\u201d Eighteen years later, she remains a top-performing employee, comfortably aware that being a part-time convenience worker \u201cis the only way [she] can be a normal person.\u201d\u00a0At 36, however, her being a single woman in a dead-end job elicits worry and judgment from family and acquaintances. To deflect unwanted meddling, Keiko \u201cadopts\u201d an arrogant wastrel with both comical and bittersweet results.<\/p>\n<p>The prestigious Akutagawa Prize-winning Sayaka Murata, herself a part-time \u201cconvenience store woman,\u201d makes a dazzling English-language debut in a crisp translation by Ginny Tapley Takemori, rich in scathingly entertaining observations on identity, perspective, and the suffocating hypocrisy of \u201cnormal\u201d society.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booklistonline.com\/Convenience-Store-Woman-Sayaka-Murata\/pid=9356010\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">&#8220;Fiction,&#8221; <em>Booklist<\/em>, May 1, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2016 (Japan), 2018 (United States)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*STARRED REVIEW In nursery school, Keiko pragmatically suggested that the dead bird in the park could become a grilled treat for her father. 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