![]() When Smile Mart hires a part-time employee named Shiraha who is around Keiko’s age and shares similar life experiences, Keiko’s coworkers note that he is “weird.” He unintentionally frightens women and claims the world is the same as it was during the Stone Age. While Keiko’s friends comment on her mannerisms as always changing, she herself notices the subtle ways in which those around her change. Keiko models her speech patterns and style of dress on those of her coworkers. ![]() ![]() Smile Mart offers Keiko a manual to live by, guidelines outlined by corporate policy. Keiko’s sister is supportive of her and offers excuses she can use to justify her life as an asexual 36-year-old with no “real” career, but Keiko knows her parents and friends are disappointed in her. Since Keiko was a child, she has felt different, separate, from others she feels that the only way she can prevent others from being uncomfortable around her is by mimicking them and keeping her views about the world to herself. ![]() Keiko Furukura is a 36-year-old woman who has been working at a convenience store, the Smile Mart, her entire adult life. ![]() This guide is based on the Kindle edition of the novel (translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori) published in 2018. ![]()
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