The Coffee Shop (collection)

How do you tell a stranger—yet painfully dear—person how hard it is to find the strength to love? How do you tell them how you’ve been living in this world until now?

A man and a woman meet every day at the next tables in the same coffee shop. He notices a stranger who is sad with a book of Shakespeare’s sonnets. He lends her his copy—and once she opens it, she can’t stop reading. The mysterious book becomes a surprise not only for the reader…