Convenience Store Woman, Sayaka MurataMeet Keiko. Keiko is 36 years old. She's never had a boyfriend, and she's been working in the same supermarket for eighteen years. Keiko's family wishes she'd get a proper job. Her friends wonder why she won't get married. But Keiko knows what makes her happy, and she's not going to let anyone come between her and her convenience store*Convenience Store Woman comes in three different colours; the colour you receive will be chosen at random*

but inside each of us

pushing New York from the epicenter

From mega-harems in Dubai to illicit brothels in Bucharest

into a tapestry of unfulfillable desire

whom she speaks to

it is possible to grow by finding deeper meaning and gaining greater appreciation in our lives

They will tell you things aren't what they used to be--when a thirty-year-old guy arrives at a party and does not even glance at you

cutting-edge bands began emerging from Seattle

The author explains how the reader can experience healing from these wounds and be free to live in their God given destiny

the pride of her suburban New Jersey family

and we can watch

a "black hole" of sex and self-loathing intent on orchestrating her own extinction