CONVENIENCE STORE WOMAN BY SAYAKA MURATA (GRADE - C)

An award-winning Japanese literary novel by Sayaka Murata that follows Keiko Furukura, a 36-year-old woman who has worked part-time in the same convenience store for eighteen years. Considered "different" by society since childhood, Keiko finds comfort, purpose, and identity in the predictable routines of the store, even as friends and family pressure her to pursue a more conventional life involving marriage and a prestigious career.