About the book: 2020 / Keiko Furukura has been working part-time in a konbini, a Japanese mini-market, for eighteen years. She is withdrawn and unlike her peers: she lives alone, does not date anyone, does not strive to start a family or find a permanent job. Her whole life is subordinated to the routine of the conbini, where she knows every product and every shelf by heart. However, Keiko seems strange to those around her. She always catches sidelong glances at herself and all she hears from her friends is: “You’ll find yourself a man...” But one day a new employee appears at the konbini, who by chance turns Keiko’s life upside down.…