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Feminist Book Club: Convenience Store Woman

Sun, Feb 09

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Cafe con Libros

Our book club brings folx together across difference to read, analyze, and critique Feminist text from an intersectional point of view. This means, we do not avoid race or racism and the unique ways it impacts womxn and specifically, Black womxn.

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Feminist Book Club: Convenience Store Woman
Feminist Book Club: Convenience Store Woman

Time & Location

Feb 09, 2020, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM

Cafe con Libros, 724 Prospect Pl, Brooklyn, NY 11216, USA

About the Event

 About the Book: The English-language debut of one of Japan’s most talented contemporary writers, selling over 650,000 copies there, Convenience Store Woman is the heartwarming and surprising story of thirty-six-year-old Tokyo resident Keiko Furukura. Keiko has never fit in, neither in her family, nor in school, but when at the age of eighteen she begins working at the Hiiromachi branch of “Smile Mart,” she finds peace and purpose in her life. In the store, unlike anywhere else, she understands the rules of social interaction―many are laid out line by line in the store’s manual―and she does her best to copy the dress, mannerisms, and speech of her colleagues, playing the part of a “normal” person excellently, more or less. Managers come and go, but Keiko stays at the store for eighteen years. It’s almost hard to tell where the store ends and she begins. Keiko is very happy, but the…

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