Thanks, I hate it. 

This is not a light, funny, ‘oh, isn’t she quirky’ comfort read. 

Keiko is a neurodivergent women who works in a shop. She loves her job and is happy with her life – except for the fact that everyone around her wants her to leave her job and start being ‘normal’.

I adore Keiko – but I despised literally everyone else in this book. They’re horrible awful people obsessed with forcing everyone to live identically to them. Except for one other person, who’s awful but differently awful. Keiko’s sister and best friend are the worst. 

As soon as it became clear that the MC was neurodivergent, I googled the author. This book is riddled with internalised ableism, right from the start. From what I read about the author, the premise of this book (though  perhaps not the plot) seems to be autobiographical. 

The main character is obsessed with what I can’t help but thinking of as self-inflicted ABA. I hope the author is more generous with herself. 

The idea of neurotypical people reading this book makes me uncomfortable. But then maybe they need to read it in order to see the hell they put on neurodivergent people. But then, they won’t see it; they’ll just see a ‘charming’ story about a ‘quirky’ woman. 

Ugh.