The highly anticipated sequel to the amazing bestselling novel Before the Coffee Gets Cold.

What would you change if you could travel back in time? In a small alley in Tokyo, there is a café that has been serving well-brewed coffee for over a hundred years. However, this shop offers a unique experience to its customers – the ability to travel to the past.

In Before the Truth is Revealed, the second book following the shocking literary debut of Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Before the Coffee Gets Cold, we meet four new characters who wish to travel to the past to find a loved one: a man searching for his best friend whose daughter he raised as his own, a son who did not return home for his mother's funeral, a lover who wanted to see the girl he could not marry, and an elderly detective who failed to save his own wife.

The rules remain the same: Customers must sit in the correct seat, accept the coffee offered to them, and above all, they must return to the present before the coffee gets cold.

With simplicity and warmth, this book explores how the past we carry within us affects us and how far we are willing to go to meet the people we love, even if only for one last time.

What they wrote about the book:
“[…] it is easy to be cynical, and much rarer to find narratives that end with genuine tears of joy.” –New York Times
“Kawaguchi uniquely handles a theme that many have tackled, time travel, and manages to highlight the power of joy as a legacy.” –Library Journal
“An enjoyable book, an emotional balm with lasting action.” –Booklist