Best Wishes from the Full Moon Coffee Shop
A Novel
New York, NY : Ballantine Books, [2025]
Format: Book
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Description: 208 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
During the holiday season, several women visit a distinctive coffee shop in Kyoto, where guidance is offered through symbolic interpretations involving cats. A professional in Tokyo faces uncertainty about balancing her career with the possibility of marriage. Her colleague struggles with family changes following her mother's remarriage. A third woman returns to her hometown with her daughter when her estranged father becomes ill and encounters unexpected insights. Each woman confronts personal decisions as they reflect on their circumstances during Christmastime.
Series: Full Moon Coffee Shop
Subjects:
Cats -- Fiction.
Human-animal relationships -- Fiction.
Women -- Japan -- Kyoto -- Fiction.
Coffee shops -- Fiction.
Decision making -- Fiction.
Self-realization in women -- Fiction.
Divination -- Fiction.
Asians -- Fiction.
Cats -- Fiction.
Human-animal relationships -- Fiction.
Women -- Japan -- Kyoto -- Fiction.
Coffee shops -- Fiction.
Decision making -- Fiction.
Self-realization in women -- Fiction.
Divination -- Fiction.
Asians -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780593726846
| Availability | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
| F Mochizuki | Main (Downtown) | Second Level, Fiction | In |
| F Mochizuki | Main (Downtown) | Second Level, Fiction | In |
| F Mochizuki | Ballentine Indoors | New, Fiction | In |
| F Mochizuki | St. Andrews Indoors | New, Fiction | In |
| F Mochizuki | Southeast | New, Fiction | Out (Due: 6/22/2026) |
Additional Notes
"Original Japanese edition published by Bungeishunju Ltd in 2021, under the title Mangetsu Kohiten no Hoshiyomi, Honto no Negaigoto" -- Title page verso.
In English, translated from the Japanese.
In English, translated from the Japanese.
