Discover the beloved early novel by the bestselling author of WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR IS IN THE LIBRARY, centered around the charming Cafe Marble and the healing comfort it provides those who pass through its doors.
 
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 and reverberate far beyond your own circle and ultimately make a difference in the world.
 
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.
 
Contributor Bio(s)
 
Michiko Aoyama was born in 1970 and grew up in the Aichi Prefecture, Honshu, Japan. After university, she became a reporter for a Japanese newspaper based in Sydney before moving back to Tokyo to work as a magazine editor. What You Are Looking For Is in the Library was short-listed for the Japan Booksellers’ Award and became a Japanese bestseller. It is being translated into more than thirty-five languages. Michiko Aoyama lives in Yokohama, Japan.
 
E. Madison Shimoda is the translator of the bestselling We'll Prescribe You a Cat series.