What: Nearly every review of Sayaka Murata's Convenience Store Woman mentions that it's difficult to describe, so I won't. I will say that your mileage may vary with this one.
For example, they say: "uncanny and depraved" (The New Yorker) and "sublimely weird" (The Guardian). I say: very relatable, richly distilled slice of one woman's interior life.
Representative quote: "Before me now was a human male, mindlessly hoping that one of the same species was going to breed."
How to get it: This slim novel, the first of Murata's to be translated into English, is everywhere. It is both popular and critically acclaimed.
Connection to previous Wreckage: Convenience Store Woman was part of List #96: Things to Read from 2020 That You Might Have Missed While Sitting in the Abyss.
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