Join the Second Tuesday monthly book discussion online using Zoom. 

The upcoming book selection will be available for pick up any time after the current month’s discussion, during open hours at the Port Angeles Main Library. Copies of the book will be available on a first come, first serve basis.

Registration is required to receive Zoom login. 

Library staff and volunteers will moderate the discussion. Sign in via Zoom link to see other participants, or call in to join the meeting.  No internet required to connect to the discussion by phone.

Convenience Store Woman

by Sayaka Murata

Keiko Furukura had always been considered a strange child, so when she takes on a job in a convenience store while at university, her parents are delighted for her. For her part, in the convenience store she finds a predictable world mandated by the store manual, which dictates how the workers should act and what they should say, and she copies her coworkers' style of dress and speech patterns so that she can play the part of a normal person. However, eighteen years later, at age 36, she is still in the same job, has never had a boyfriend, and has only few friends. When a similarly alienated but cynical and bitter young man comes to work in the store, he will upset Keiko's contented stasis--but will it be for the better?