You can only meet people who have actually visited the café in the past you have one opportunity in the day to travel back in time you physically cannot do or say anything that will change the present. Sadly, you can’t just travel back in time in this café. Kawaguchi paints a myriad of family portraits that have been dashed by car crashes, cancer, and the struggle of the starving artist. In another, we see a heartwarming reconciliation between a biological and adoptive father on their daughter’s wedding day. In one short-lived saga, we witness a widower who was minutes away from saving their wife from a violent end. However, the main talisman of the café is the ability to travel in time to meet the ghosts of your past. Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s Before the Coffee Gets Cold is a novella in which disenchanted street-dwellers of Tokyo make their way into a seemingly inconspicuous café. Luckily, there are plenty of works of literature that give us a solution to this age-old dilemma. Oftentimes, it is near impossible to find an appropriate place to put our grief, disappointment, or resentment towards the things that we have been denied. Many of us have been promised a greater step in our lives only for that promise to shatter in front of us. Whether through death or rejection, we have all felt that chasm in our chest where someone else used to reside.
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