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Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan.
Fiction. 128 pages. Hardcover. 2021. Kepler's
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata.
Fiction. 176 pages. Paperback. 2019. Kepler's

Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan.
NYT Book Club PIck, 2024. Shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize. Winner of the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction.
A tale of one man's courage and a remarkable portrait of love and family. It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and family man faces into his busiest season. Early one morning, while delivering an order to the local convent, Bill makes a discovery which forces him to confront both his past and the complicit silences of a town controlled by the church. A deeply affecting story of hope, and quiet heroism.

Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata, trans. by Ginny Tapley Takemori
Shortlisted for the Best Translated Book Award. Longlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation
LA Times Bestseller.

The heartwarming and surprising story of thirty-six-year-old Tokyo resident Keiko Furukura. Keiko has never fit in, neither in her family, nor in school, but when at the age of eighteen she begins working at the Hiiromachi branch of "Smile Mart," she finds peace and purpose in her life.
An ironic and sharp-eyed look at contemporary work culture and the pressures to conform, as well as a charming and completely fresh portrait of an unforgettable heroine.

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