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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 café 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 café 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?

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Discussion Questions

If you had to follow the book’s rules, would you time travel? And where or when would you go?

If you didn’t have to follow the book’s rules, would that change your answer?

Café, characters, or coffee -- where do you think the magic came from? Or did the magic come from something else?

Which of the time travel rules was the most frustrating? And did you think of any loopholes to get around it?

Are you a fan of time travel in novels? Did you enjoy the way the novel handled it as magical realism rather than rooted through science? Did you wish to know more about it?

Before the Coffee Gets Cold is an international bestseller, what do you think makes the story so appealing to people from all over the world?

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