Our June title will be Before the coffee gets cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi.
Here are the meeting details:
Wednesday June 30th at 1pm
IN PERSON! Under the library's new tent!
Reading options:
Hardcover copies! (available soon)
Hoopla audiobook (always available)
Hoopla ebook (always available)
Hoopla Spotlight book club resources
Here's a bit more about the book:
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.
Japanese playwright Kawaguchi’s evocative English-language debut is set
in a tiny Tokyo café where time travel is possible. In four connected
tales, lovers and family members take turns sitting in the chair that
allows a person to travel back in time for only as long as it takes a
single cup of coffee to cool. In “Husband and Wife,” a nurse goes back
in time to visit her husband before his Alzheimer’s erased her from his
memory; in “The Sisters,” a woman visits her younger sister, who died in
an accident while trying to visit her, to apologize for not seeing her.
Kawaguchi’s characters embark on lo-fi, emotional journeys unburdened
by the technicalities often found in time travel fiction—notably, they
are unable to change the present. The characters learn, though, that
even though people don’t return to a changed present, they return “with a
changed heart.” Kawaguchi’s tender look at the beauty of passing
things, adapted from one of his plays, makes for an affecting, deeply
immersive journey into the desire to hold onto the past. This wondrous
tale will move readers. ....Publisher's Weekly Review
