A February 2023 Books-A-Million Staff Pick
"This book reminds me that although I can't change the past that doesn't mean I can't learn from those mistakes. It's a very bittersweet and whimsical story involving a cafe and a few desperate people looking for closure or just one last time with a loved one. It inspires me because these people know that when they go into the past it wont change their present, yet they go just to see."
- Recommended by Jesselyn O. from Asheboro, NC

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If you could go back in time, who would you want to meet?

In a small back alley of Tokyo, there is a caf that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. Local legend says that this shop offers something else besides coffee--the chance to travel back in time.

Over the course of one summer, four customers visit the caf in the hopes of making that journey. But time travel isn't so simple, and there are rules that must be followed. Most important, the trip can last only as long as it takes for the coffee to get cold.

Heartwarming, wistful, mysterious and delightfully quirky, Toshikazu Kawaguchi's internationally bestselling novel explores the age-old question: What would you change if you could travel back in time?