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村田沙耶香: Convenience Store Woman (2018)

Keiko Furukura had always been considered a strange child, and her parents always worried how …

Yep

I wonder if Keiko is generally considered a relatable character or not. Her logic and the survival choices made to avert being labeled 'a foreign object' were incredibly relatable to me at least. The narration provided an air of dry humor which balanced out the general sense of tragedy this story left me with. What is someone who cannot believably play the parts societally delineated and policed by peers to do?