Kate & Frida: A Novel of Friendship, Food, and Books (Love & Saffron Series) ~ by Kim Fay, 2025, epistolary fiction, 288 pages (316 pages in LP)
Sometimes a book can change your life . . . Frida Rodriguez arrives in Paris in 1991, relishing the city’s butter-soaked cuisine and seeking her future as a war correspondent. But when she writes to a bookshop in Seattle, she receives more than just the book she requests. A friendship begins that will redefine the person she thought she wanted to become.
Seattle bookseller Kate Fair is transformed by Frida’s free spirit, spurred to believe in herself as a writer, to kiss her handsome coworker, and to find beauty even in loss. Through the most tumultuous years of their lives — personally and globally — Kate and Frida’s friendship sustains and nourishes them as they show each other how to overcome self-doubt and the necessity of embracing joy, especially through our darkest hours.
This novel is a love letter to bookshops and booksellers, to the way stories shape how we perceive ourselves, to the passion we bring to life in our twenties, and to the last precious years before the internet changed everything.
I like an online comment yhat says this is "a book about trying to find joy despite the heaviness of life."
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