Una cafetería. Un cuaderno. Y la oportunidad de decir la verdad. Esta maravillosa novela enlaza el destino de seis desconocidos a través de un cuaderno que les invita a contar su historia y la verdad que hay detrás de cada una de ellas. En esta libreta, que viajará de mano en mano, escribirán las confesiones que hasta ahora no se habían atrevido a compartir con nadie mientras a su alrededor va creándose un círculo de amistad, solidaridad y amor. Pero ser honestos también entraña algunos riesgos... Julian Jessop, an eccentric, lonely artist and septuagenarian believes that most people aren't really honest with each other. But what if they were? And so he writes—in a plain, green journal—the truth about his own life and leaves it in his local café. It's run by the incredibly tidy and efficient Monica, who furtively adds her own entry and leaves the book in the wine bar across the street. Before long, the others who find the green notebook add the truths about their own deepest selves—and soon find each other In Real Life at Monica's Café. 's cast of characters—including Hazard, the charming addict who makes a vow to get sober; Alice, the fabulous mommy Instagrammer whose real life is a lot less perfect than it looks online; and their other new friends—is by turns quirky and funny, heartbreakingly sad and painfully true-to-life. It's a story about being brave and putting your real self forward—and finding out that it's not as scary as it seems. In fact, it looks a lot like happiness. is just the tonic for our times that readers are clamoring for—and one they will take to their hearts and read with unabashed pleasure.