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The Duplicity of Tenderness in Sonoko Machida's "The Convenience Store by the Sea" - Chicago Review of Books

In the town of Kitakyūshū nestled by the Golden Villa Apartments, for aging seniors, sits The Convenience Store by the Sea, eponymously named Tender. Shiba, the enigmatic manager, draws a crowd of Golden Villa Ladies, a bittersweet retiree, a student struggling with the social scene, and the son of Shiba’s employee. Narrated in a close third person, which oscillates across chapters—from worker Mitsuri, manga amateur Yoshirō, sweets lover Azusa, …
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chireviewofbooks.com broke the news in on Monday, July 21, 2025.
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