6. Newfoundland Portfolio / Convenience Store Woman.

Michael reads J.M. Sullivan's Newfoundland Portfolio, and Emily reads Sayaka Murata's Convenience Store Woman.

Michael thinks about history and community through reading Newfoundland
Portfolio, a collection of obituaries by J.M.
Sullivan, while Emily considers the abnormality of the hypernormal and
different ways of being happy in Sayaka Murata’s Convenience Store
Woman. They talk about Newfoundland, independent
bookstores, summer reading, the service industry, and problematic attitudes
toward low-prestige jobs.

Newfoundland Portfolio: A History in Portraits by
J.M. Sullivan.

Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata.

Lanier Phillips, the
African-American sailor who was rescued from a shipwreck by Newfoundlanders in
the 1940s.

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