Best Wishes from the Full Moon Coffee Shop

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In Japan, cats are symbols of good luck — and if you're kind to the right one, you might find yourself invited to a mysterious coffee shop under a Christmas moon in Kyoto. Three women at crossroads in their lives — a career-driven Tokyoite whose boyfriend is about to propose, a daughter masking grief behind cheerfulness since her father's death, and a mother returning to face her estranged parent — each receive feline divinations that illuminate what they most desperately need. Mai Mochizuki writes cozy magical realism with genuine emotional specificity — the cat-run café is whimsical, but the dilemmas are real, and the resolutions are earned rather than wished into existence. A holiday novel about the courage to want what you actually want — instead of what everyone expects you to want.