This is one of those strange little books that I found reaffirmed my belief in the idea of being true to yourself. There are a lot of platitudes about that concept, mostly Disney-fied or Rom-Comish in execution, and those platitudes always ring hollow to me. They seem sacharine, or manipulative, or frustratingly narrow in execution. What Sayaka Murata offers in Convenience Store Woman is a character so out of synch with the rest of her society, but so in synch with the world of her store, that you can’t help but appreciate and marvel at it. Keiko Fukuwara is different. […]
The Convenience of Individuality
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
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5/26/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:10 | 
| Tags: Asperger's, autism, convenience store woman, Japan, japanese, Murata, Spectrum | Category: Fiction | 0 Comments
