Before We Forget Kindness
A Novel
Hanover Square Press · Print & ebook · November 5, 2024
*NATIONAL BESTSELLER* In the fifth book in the sensational, cozy Before the Coffee Gets Cold series translated from Japanese, the mysterious café where customers arrive hoping to travel back in time welcomes four new guests: - The father who could not allow his daughter to get married - A woman who couldn't give Valentine's Day chocolates to her loved one - A boy who wants to show his smile to his divorced parents - A wife holding a child with no name . . .
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- Who it’s for
- For when you want a gentle, time-crossing read with a familiar, collected feel.
- Genres
- Time Travel Fiction, Magical Realism, Japanese Fiction
- Published
- Hanover Square Press, November 5, 2024
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*NATIONAL BESTSELLER* In the fifth book in the sensational, cozy Before the Coffee Gets Cold series translated from Japanese, the mysterious café where customers arrive hoping to travel back in time welcomes four new guests: - The father who could not allow his daughter to get married - A woman who couldn't give Valentine's Day chocolates to her loved one - A boy who wants to show his smile to his divorced parents - A wife holding a child with no name . . .
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They must follow the café's strict rules, however, and come back to the present before their coffee goes cold. Another moving and heartwarming tale from Toshikazu Kawaguchi, in Before We Forget Kindness our new visitors wish to go back into their past to move on their present, finding closure and comfort so they can embark on a beautiful future. Meet more wonderful characters in the rest of the captivating Before the Coffee Gets Cold series: - Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Book 1) - Tales from the Cafe (Book 2) - Before Your Memory Fades (Book 3) - Before We Say Goodbye (Book 4) - Before We Forget Kindness (Book 5) - Before the Coffee Gets Cold - Boxed Set (Books 1-3)
Gentle Time Travel
For when you want a gentle, time-crossing read with a familiar, collected feel.
Come here for
- warm, time-bending comfort
- series-adjacent familiarity
Expect
- short-form storytelling
- family-centered emotional cues
Where it sits
| Time Travel Fiction | 65% |
|---|---|
| Magical Realism | 61% |
| Japanese Fiction | 56% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Contemporary Fantasy
- Literary Fiction
- Time Travel Fiction
- Marriage & Divorce
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- Parenting & Family
- Magical Realism
- Small-Town Fiction
- Multiple-Timeline Fiction
- Authors
- Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Geoffrey Trousselot
- Publisher
- Hanover Square Press
- Published
- November 5, 2024
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Contemporary Fantasy