From the internationally bestselling author of the Morisaki Bookshop novels comes a charming
and poignant story set at a quiet Tokyo café where customers find unexpected connection and
experience everyday miracles. Tucked away on a narrow side street in Tokyo is the Torunka Café
a neighborhood nook where the passersby are as likely to be local cats as tourists. Its
regulars include Chinatsu Yukimura a mysterious young woman who always leaves behind a napkin
folded into the shape of a ballerina Hiroyuki Numata a middle-aged man who’s returned to the
neighborhood searching for the happy life he once gave up and Shizuku the café owner’s
teenage daughter who is still coming to terms with her sister’s death as she falls in love for
the first time. While Café Torunka serves up a perfect cup of coffee it provides these sundry
souls with nourishment far more lasting. Satoshi Yagisawa brilliantly illuminates the periods
in our lives where we feel lost—and how we find our way again.
