102 Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata — Gender and Cross-Cultural Satire

Julia and Victoria parse through all the bizarre takes by professional critics and writers on Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata.

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Sayaka Murata’s Eerie “Convenience Store Woman” Is a Love Story Between a Misfit and a Store by Katy Waldman (The New Yorker) 

This anti-capitalist novel explores what it means to be 'normal' in an abnormal world by Marianne Eloise (i-D Vice) 

I thought I was too different to see myself in a novel – but Sayaka Murata got me by Naoise Dolan (The Guardian)

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For Japanese Novelist Sayaka Murata, Odd Is the New Normal by Motoko Rich (The New York Times) 

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