Meet Me at the Convenience Store by the Sea, 9781398728790
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Heartbreak, healing, and hope blossom at a seaside convenience store.
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Meet Me at the Convenience Store by the Sea

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  • Paperback

    144 pages

  • Release Date

    27 April 2026

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Summary

Seaside Stories: Finding Heart in a Kyushu Convenience Store

After a broken heart, Nagata Shino skips high school and meets her grandmother in an unexpected place.

Part-time store clerk Hirose Taro thinks of himself as a boring guy… until a beautiful girl begins to disrupt his daily life.

Why did his best friend leave? Murai Mizuki faces reality and takes a courageous step.

A heartwarming story about a small 24⁄7 convenience store in Mojiko, Kitakyush…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781398728790
ISBN-10:1398728799
Author:Sonoko Machida
Publisher:Orion Publishing Co
Imprint:Orion
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:144
Release Date:27 April 2026
Weight:0g
Dimensions:198mm x 129mm
About The Author

Sonoko Machida

Sonoko Machida is an award-winning Japanese author, born in 1980 in Fukuoka Prefecture. In 2016, she won the Onna ni yoru onna no tame no R-18 bungakusho (By Women for Women R-18 Literature Prize) for Kamerun no aoi sakana (Blue Fish of Cameroon). Her masterpiece 52 herutsu no kujira-tachi (The 52-Hertz Whales), won the 2021 Japanese Booksellers’ Award and became a bestseller with about half a million copies sold in Japan. Her two following novels, Hoshi wo sukuu (Scooping Up the Stars) and Sora gohan (Sora’s Recipes), were both nominated for the award in consecutive years.

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