Praise for the Before the Coffee Gets Cold series "Endearing." —New York Times Book Review "Heartwarming, quirky, and wistful." —Huffpost "The narrative is deeply moving." —Chicago Review of Books "Kawaguchi…has a surprising, unerring ability to find lasting emotional resonance. Interwoven into what initially feels like a whimsical escape are existential conundrums of love and loss, family and freedom, life and death." —Christian Science Monitor "This charmingly magical novel is about discovering happiness despite the pasts that we desperately want to revisit." —The Harvard Crimson “Kawaguchi has found a unique way to manipulate such a commonly used trope as time travel and has captured the power of joy as a legacy.” —Library Journal “The book’s resonating charm provides lasting emotional balm.” —Booklist
Praise for Before Your Memory Fades “Kawaguchi’s comforting and thought-provoking book is perfect reading for cold winter nights.”—Library Journal
"[A] mosaic novel... Readers looking for a nudge to live life to its fullest will find one here.”—Publishers Weekly
A purring cat curled in your lap, a good cup of coffee, sitting in a café with a good book — these are just a few of our favorite things. With whimsy, tenderness and adventure, these novels, translated from the Japanese, have our whole hearts, and we know they’ll capture yours too. Hiro Arikawa first […]
It’s the shortest day of the year and the longest night here in the Northern Hemisphere, and it’s only natural for there to be a little seasonal depression as our sunlight dwindles. The good news is that now that we’ve hit the shortest day, there’s nowhere to go but up. The other good news? There […]