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SUMMARY:Bite-Sized Book Club
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DTSTAMP:20260404T094000Z
DTSTART:20260713T170000Z
DTEND:20260713T183000Z
LOCATION:35 Ripley Road \nCohasset MA 02025
ROOM: Meeting Room
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a new book club focused on novellas and other shor
 t reads! We will have big discussions about small books! This month we&#0
 39;re reading Convenience Store Woman by Murata Sayaka:The English-languag
 e debut of one of Japan's most talented contemporary writers, selling
  over 650,000 copies there, Convenience Store Woman is the heartwarming an
 d surprising story of thirty-six-year-old Tokyo resident Keiko Furukura.Ke
 iko has never fit in, neither in her family, nor in school, but when at th
 e age of eighteen she begins working at the Hiiromachi branch of “Smile 
 Mart,” she finds peace and purpose in her life. In the store, unlike any
 where else, she understands the rules of social interaction―many are lai
 d out line by line in the store’s manual―and she does her best to copy
  the dress, mannerisms, and speech of her colleagues, playing the part of 
 a “normal” person excellently, more or less. Keiko is very happy, but 
 the people close to her, from her family to her coworkers, increasingly pr
 essure her to find a husband, and to start a proper career, prompting her 
 to take desperate action…A brilliant depiction of a world hidden from vi
 ew, Convenience Store Woman is an ironic and sharp-eyed look at contempora
 ry work culture and the pressures we all feel to conform, as well as a cha
 rming and completely fresh portrait of an unforgettable heroine. Pick up 
 a copy at the Circulation Desk or find it on Libby or Hoopla!
URL:https://paulprattlibrary.librarymarket.com/event/bite-sized-book-club-
 27990
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