Sayaka Murata's Convenience Store Woman features Furukama, a woman who works for over twenty years in a convenience store and whose identity becomes formed by everything that goes into the convenience store concept in Japan. Set in Tokyo, the novel comm…  | canyondreamer May 13 | Sayaka Murata's Convenience Store Woman features Furukama, a woman who works for over twenty years in a convenience store and whose identity becomes formed by everything that goes into the convenience store concept in Japan. Set in Tokyo, the novel comments on several things I am not capable of commenting on - notions of class identity in Japan, the meaning of work and what quality work might look like for different people, and what feels like a rigid family structure built on notions of propriety. Thoughts: - I'm guessing that Furukama is on the neuro-cognitive spectrum. She chooses to withdraw from developing relationships with people rather than risk the alienation that comes from acting badly, especially when her ways to act badly involve hurtin people.
- It's probably not a subtle dig, but when Furukama lets a former co-worker live with her, the people around her are excited that she may be going to do the proper thing and get married, even though the guy is sort of psychotic himself.
- I'd love to know more about the role convenience store plays in Japanese culture - her co-workers are a normal range of humans, none of whom want to be in that job long.
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