Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold #1)

LA Times Bestseller • International Bestseller • Five Million Copies Sold • An Expertly Curated Cozy Asian Healing Fiction Pick

The first book in the beloved magical realism series set in a tiny Tokyo café where time travel is possible — for as long as it takes for the coffee to get cold.

In a small back alley of Tokyo, there is a café that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. Local legend says that this shop offers something else besides coffee — the chance to travel back in time.

Over the course of one summer, four customers visit the café in the hopes of making that journey. But time travel isn't so simple, and there are rules that must be followed. Most important, the trip can last only as long as it takes for the coffee to get cold.

Meet four visitors, each hoping to use the café's time-travelling offer to:

• Confront the man who left them
• Receive a letter from their husband whose memory has been taken by Alzheimer's
• See their sister one last time
• Meet the daughter they never got the chance to know

Heartwarming, wistful, mysterious, and delightfully quirky — an exploration of the age-old question: What would you change if you could travel back in time?

The Before the Coffee Gets Cold series: Before the Coffee Gets Cold • Tales from the Cafe • Before Your Memory Fades • Before We Say Goodbye • Before We Forget Kindness

📖 Hardcover | 272 pages