A review by jessamine864
Before the Coffee Gets Cold, by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

A very respectful, beautiful portrayal of grief and loss and different people yearning to see someone just once more. It revolves around a small cafè with the family who run the cafè and provide the 'magic' to go back in time as the kind of side characters throughout the vignettes of different people going back and their stories but then they are also main characters at the end who tie up all the stories into one beautiful realisation. It is a slow moving book and you just have to sit back and take it at its own pace, but it is beautiful and it made me cry! 
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