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Murata here makes her English-language debut with this 2016 winner of Japan's prestigious Akutagawa Prize. It offers a spare recounting of the life of 36-year-old Keiko Furukawa, a single woman who has worked part-time in a convenience store for exactly half her life. Perceived since childhood as not being "normal" by those around her, Keiko describes how her work at the Smile Mart convenience s...Log In or Sign Up to Read More