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Finalist for the 2014 Kirkus Prize

Before the Coffee Gets Cold is a story about love

The End of the Story schiller the only place where heMisplaced boxes, complications with visiting nurses, cryptic notes, even a trip to the county fairthese small disruptions shape the days of the unnamed narrator of The End of the Story as she tries to transform the memory of a past love affair into a novel. With a blend of compassion, wit, and apparent honesty, she sifts through fragments of recollection in an effort to understand what she truly knows about her past and about herself. Yet as the