![]() She often reads situations logically, but her struggle to interpret people often results in awkward (and sometimes cringeworthy) exchanges.īut you’re not lured in to pity her. It’s illustrated in the story that Keiko has difficulties connecting with people and understanding the world around her (it would be fair to assume that she is a person with autism). ![]() I really enjoyed the quirkiness of this book and its blunt humour. ![]() Katy Waldman described the book in the New Yorker as “a love story, in other words, about a misfit and a store.” The main character, Keiko Furukura, gives the store unconditional devotion and the convenience store – a haven of rules and regulations – gives her an incomparable sense of belonging and order. When you work in retail – spending hours and hours within a confined shop ecosystem – everything becomes muscle memory. At one point, it felt so vivid that I had flashbacks to when I worked in a chocolate store. ![]() The text has an upbeat tempo and really evokes a sensory experiences – I could almost feel the bright white lights of the aggressively clean shop and the beeps of the scanner. Perfect for our non-committal generation!). After seeing several rave reviews about this book, I downloaded a sample on my kindle (I love that you can sample the first chapters of books digitally before buying the whole thing. ![]()
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