Konbini ningen
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Konbini ningen

2016
Part-time employmentMan-woman relationshipsJapanese fictionSingle womenConvenience storesFictionSingle women -- Japan -- FictionConvenience stores -- Japan -- FictionMan-woman relationships -- Japan -- FictionPart-time employment -- Japan -- Fiction

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?

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