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About this book

Furukura Keiko, 36 and single, lives a quiet life. She never found formal employment, and has been working in a convenience store for 18 years. She's never had a boyfriend. She eats convenience store food every day and can work the register in her sleep; she falls peacefully asleep each night thinking of the store's tidy scenery and the staff's cries of "Welcome!" One day a new male employee, himself looking to get married, tells her that her "convenience store life" is downright embarrassing...but just what is "normal" anyway?

Subjects

  • convenience stores
  • convenience stores -- japan -- fiction
  • fiction
  • japanese fiction
  • man-woman relationships
  • man-woman relationships -- japan -- fiction
  • part-time employment
  • part-time employment -- japan -- fiction
  • single women
  • single women -- japan -- fiction