![]() When a group of children found a dead bird in the park, all but Keiko broke into tears she, however, bore it off eagerly to her mother, suggesting that they take it home and eat it. She has shaped her entire life around it, and if anything makes her unhappy - aside from disorder within the store - it is that her way of life and behavior seem, oddly enough, to upset her family.Īs a girl she brought consternation to her parents through her lack of empathy, her obliviousness to accepted behavior and a kind of hyperpracticality. Its routines and social certainties create an arena in which she can operate with confidence. ![]() She has found her place in the world, and that is as a part-time worker at the Smile Mart, one in a chain of convenience stores in Tokyo. While she is obdurately analytical and literal-minded and has to have social conventions spelled out to her, Keiko is not affected by the emotions which, she observes, create havoc and pain in other people’s lives. ![]() You could say that Keiko Furukura, the central character and first-person narrator of Sayaka Murata’s wonderfully strange “Convenience Store Woman,” suffers from some degree of Asberger’s syndrome, except “suffer” is exactly the wrong word. ![]()
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