Study Guide: Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata, Transl. Ginny Tapley Takemori

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53 pages, Paperback

Published July 13, 2022

Reviews

[Omar · Rating 4 out of 5]

Quite bizarre and weirdly riveting, without insisting on a particular thesis. Rather than feeling like a literary puzzle I need to rearrange properly, this feels like someone’s recount of a series of events - leaving me to conclude whatever I felt like.

Overall it is a critique of man’s innate desire for order in society, for preferring that a person be normal with problems than abnormal and perfectly fine. Rather than reject society for this and shun it, it is better to accept and live with this reality. Shura haram is as much an outcast and an abnormality as Furukura is - but his constant resistance to his own nature is his sin.

The convenience store shifts in Furukuras mind. At first a place where she could be normal and find a set of rules that befit societal standards, allowing her to wear a mask and become human, she shifts to understand it as a creature and a place with its own rules, a place where she belonged. The convenience store is no longer a means to an end - it is the end in and of itself, absorbing her.

[Freya Main · Rating 3 out of 5]

would be 5 stars but it hit way too close to home