Convenience Store Woman

I do like stories about misfits and outsiders finding an unexpected place in the fabric of humanity. Is this story one of those? Yes. And no. I found a great deal of intriguing tension here about what it means to “fit in” to the human fabric. I felt ambivalent but mostly sympathetic to the narrator, who is perhaps best described as a very pro-social sociopath. If someone is very different and didn't get hard-coded with society's operating manual, what are they to do? This contrasts a couple different approaches which enable examinations of ape-derived social norms, capitalism, sexism, and personal freedom.