Kate & Frida

INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER ΓÇ£A highly original,heart-warming story of an extraordinary friendship.ΓÇ¥ ΓÇöAmy PoeppelAward-Winning author of The Sweet Spot A companion to the instant national bestseller Love & Saffronthis bright and comforting novel follows the surprising friendship between two young women in 1990s Seattle and Parisilluminating the power of books to change our lives. Sometimes a book can change your life… Twenty-something Frida Rodriguezdaughter of Love & SaffronΓÇÖs own Joan Bergstromcomes to Paris in 1991relishing the cityΓÇÖs butter-soaked cuisine and seeking her future as a war correspondent. But when she writes to a bookshop in Seattleshe 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 FridaΓÇÖs free spiritspurred to kiss her handsome coworkerto believe in herself as a writerand to find beauty even in loss. Through the most tumultuous years of their young livesΓÇöpersonally and globallyΓÇöKate and FridaΓÇÖs friendship sustains and nourishes them as they show each other how to overcome self-doubt and the necessity of embracing joy even through our darkest hours. A buoyantmouth-watering oasis of a novelKate & Frida is a love letter to bookshops and booksellersto the way stories shape how we perceive ourselvesto the passion we bring to life in our twentiesand to the last precious years before the internet changed everything.