aDaD Press / EN edition
A Glass of Water at the Café
The project keeps going. I’m taking a breather.
You don’t have to finish everything before you step away from your desk. In these short, quietly funny essays, Japanese author nbai follows coffee, naps, skipping stones, television dramas, and changing city streets into the parts of working life that refuse to fit into a spreadsheet. Planning and improvement have their place. So do the warmth of a cup, an unfinished sentence, and a conversation that has no agenda. This little book asks what we might notice when we set our tools down for a moment. Read a few pages at a café. Start wherever you like. Leave it in your bag until you need it. The English edition of カフェのお冷や (Café no Ohiya), with cultural context adapted for English-speaking readers.
