Before the Coffee Gets Cold,5: Before We Forget Kindness

In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for over a century. Regulars know the café’s legend by heart: if they follow the rules, they are granted a unique opportunity to travel through time—provided they return to the present before their coffee gets cold.

In the fifth installment of the heartwarming and captivating *Before the Coffee Gets Cold* series—translated from Japanese—the mysterious café, visited by customers hoping to travel through time, welcomes four new guests:

A father who opposed his daughter’s marriage.
A woman who could not express her feelings on Valentine’s Day.
A boy who wants to smile at his divorced parents.
A wife carrying an unnamed baby.

In this other moving and heartwarming novel by Toshikazu Kawaguchi, titled *Before We Forget Kindness*, the café’s new visitors seek to return to their pasts to find solace and closure, enabling them to embark on a beautiful future.