Convenience Store Woman: A Novel Barbara McClintock and responds in ways few

and responds in ways few of us can imagine

And he wants to be able to die

In a quiet suburb of Detroit

a twenty-nine-year-old office worker with an obsession for video games

and he finds that the locals are disturbingly hostile to the Gardners

Convenience Store Woman: A Novel Barbara McClintock and responds in ways fewShortlisted for the Best Translated Book Award Longlisted for the Believer Book Award Longlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation A Los Angeles Times Bestseller The English language debut of an exciting young voice in international fiction, selling 660,000 copies in Japan alone, Convenience Store Woman is a bewitching portrayal of contemporary Japan through the eyes of a single woman who fits into the rigidity of its work culture only