Before the Coffee Gets Cold
Toshikazu Kawaguchi

January 29, 2023

Before the Coffee Gets Cold #1
Hanover Square Press
November 2020
On Sale: November 17, 2020
240 pages
ISBN: 1335430997
EAN: 9781335430991
Kindle: B084B6VFHG
Hardcover / e-Book
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Humor | Science Fiction Alternate History

This café serves coffee, snacks, personable customer service, and that little something extra!

What would you change if you could travel back in time?

Down a small alleyway in the heart of Tokyo, there’s an underground café that’s been serving carefully brewed coffee for over a hundred years. Local legend says that this shop offers its customers something else besides coffee—the chance to travel back in time.

The rules, however, are far from simple: you must sit in one particular seat, and you can’t venture outside the café, nor can you change the present. And, most important, you only have the time it takes to drink a hot cup of coffee—or risk getting stuck forever.

Over the course of one summer, four customers visit the café in the hopes of traveling to another time: a heartbroken lover looking for closure, a nurse with a mysterious letter from her husband, a waitress hoping to say one last goodbye and a mother whose child she may never get the chance to know.

Heartwarming, wistful and delightfully quirky, Before the Coffee Gets Cold explores the intersecting lives of four women who come together in one extraordinary café, where the service may not be quick, but the opportunities are endless.