May You Have Delicious Meals

I worked in a Japanese office for two years, and this short novel does well to capture the stifling conformity of the culture. It's kind of a bizarre love triangle, where one corner embraces the roles and routines of office life, another just wants to throw a (metaphorical) brick through them, and the third wavers between the two. It's quite a downbeat book, with a pretty cynical and jaundiced view of life, but an enjoyable one.