Convenience Store Woman

Keiko Furukura never felt like she fit in, until at age eighteen, she found her place behind the counter at a Tokyo convenience store, where the clear routines and expectations gave her a sense of belonging she’d never known. Eighteen years later, Keiko is still working at the same store, content with the life she’s built. But the people around her—family, coworkers, and society at large—see her life as incomplete and push her toward change. Translated from Japanese by Ginny Tapley Takemori, Convenience Store Woman offers rich material for classroom conversations about what it means to live authentically in a world that demands conformity.

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