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
