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Hot Chocolate on Thursday

Pages
208
Published
2026
Language
English

Synopsis

Across a bridge in a quiet neighborhood in Tokyo, a seasonal cherry blossom sits on the river. Nearby is the Marble Cafe, where a woman writes in a notebook and a young waiter prepares her favorite hot drink. Both wonder about each other and about the other lives of the clientele who frequent this charming little cafe behind the trees... Without even realizing it, we may touch and change someone else's life. Taking a walk along the river, cooking the best tamagoyaki, ordering hot chocolate, forgetting to remove our nail polish... The small, everyday acts that we do can lead to unexpected encounters, reverberate far beyond our own circle, and ultimately make a difference in the world around us. Hot Chocolate on Thursday is a tapestry of slice-of-life moments that each open and close with a woman ordering her regular hot chocolate at the mysterious Marble Cafe. What happens in between will touch and swell your heart, as we connect with a community of untold unfolding lives.

About the author

M
Michiko Aoyama

Michiko Aoyama is a Japanese novelist born in 1970 in Aichi Prefecture. She worked as a newspaper reporter in Sydney and later as a magazine editor in Tokyo before turning to fiction, and now lives in Yokohama. Her novel-in-stories What You Are Looking For Is in the Library became a multi-million-copy bestseller translated into more than fifteen languages and a New York Times Book of the Month.