Convenience Store Woman A Hundred Flowers by Sayaka Murata by Gail Tsukiyama Read Something A Japanese woman who has been working at a A tale set during the Chinese Cultural Revolution convenience store for 18 years, much to the follows the struggles of Kai Ying to safeguard her Different disappointment of her family, finds friendship with an family when her teacher husband is arrested and sent alienated, cynical and bitter young man who becomes to a "reeducation" labor camp for criticizing the her coworker. Communist Party.

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