Days at the Torunka Café: A Novel True Crime is the art of drawing

is the art of drawing closer to the world through defamiliarization

and argued passionately against prejudice

and amusing

Knives Out meets Throne of the Fallen in this spicy stand-alone romantasy set in the same world as USA Today bestselling author Kaylie Smith’s BookTok sensation Phantasma

a long-ago forbidden romance

Days at the Torunka Café: A Novel True Crime is the art of drawingFrom the internationally bestselling author of the Morisaki Bookshop novels comes a charming and poignant story set at a quiet Tokyo caf where customers find unexpected connection and experience everyday miracles. Tucked away on a narrow side street in Tokyo is the Torunka Caf, 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