Katy Waldman reviews “Convenience Store Woman,” the first novel by the best-selling Japanese author Sayaka Murata to be translated into English, about an oddball who is endlessly puzzled by human behavior.

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Relive author Sayaka Murata's fictional novel "Convenience Store Woman" that follows 36-year-old convenience store worker Keiko Furukura as she battles her happiness with her job against expectations of marriage and a more respectable career.

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The story of a woman and her struggle to fit in highlights just how peculiar convention can be

This deadpan Japanese tale of an oddball shop assistant possesses a strange beauty