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Before We Forget Kindness
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 …
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.
Before We Forget Kindness
Before We Forget Kindness
Cozy Pairings
Voodoo is a rich and inviting fragrance built around the depth of freshly brewed coffee, softened with the natural sweetness of sugar cane. Warm and slightly indulgent, this scent blends bold, roasted notes with a smooth, lingering sweetness that feels both energizing and comforting. Subtle and atmospheric, it carries a hint of something more, adding a layer of intrigue that makes the fragrance feel warm, familiar, and just a little bit magical.
Why we chose this: In a small Tokyo café that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years, four customers at a time are given the chance to travel back in time, for as long as it takes for the coffee to get cold. These are quiet, aching, deeply human stories about what we would say if we had one more chance, and what we carry when we do not. Voodoo carries the warm, roasted depth of a series where a single cup of coffee holds more meaning than most people will ever find in a lifetime, rich and sweet and alive with something that feels like the particular magic of a place that has been quietly changing people for generations. It is the candle for every book in this series. Light this candle before you sit down with one of these stories, and let the warmth fill the room like a café on a quiet afternoon, where the coffee is always exactly right and the time you have left to drink it is the only thing that matters.