Description from Goodreads
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 Yumata, 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.
My Thoughts on the Book
Days at the Torunka Café is a charming book about three lost souls of sorts. The thing that ties the story together is the café in the title. It's a light read, I can't deny that, and while I loved Torunka Café, I felt it was the weakest book of the three I've read by Satoshi Yagisawa so far. I'm not saying it's a bad book though, as it has a fair share of whimsy and comfort, but I personally preferred the Morisaki Bookshop books. Perhaps it's a bit that it mimicks the formula of other healing fiction books, following the story of different characters and the one location or whatever that ties them together.
The majority of the characters are well-written and has depth to them though, so they're not one-dimensional and the plot itself is okay.
So while Days at the Torunka Café isn't my personal favourite of the books written by Satoshi Yagisawa, I still have no issues recommending it to people if they're in search of a light read.
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