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Review: Kate & Frida by Kim Fay



Blurb from Goodreads:
Sometimes a book can change your life...

Twentysomething Frida Rodriguez arrives in Paris in 1991, relishing the city’s butter-soaked cuisine and seeking her future as a war correspondent. But then she writes to a bookshop in Seattle, and receives more than just the book she requests. A friendship begins that will redefine the person she wants 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 young lives—personally and globally—Kate and Frida sustain and nourish each other as they learn the necessity of embracing joy, especially through our darkest hours.

This mouthwatering oasis of a novel is a love letter to bookshops and booksellers, to the passion we bring to life in our twenties, and to the last precious years before the internet changed everything.
My Review:
I loved this author's last novel but this one was even better!! She is so good at epistolary novels! This was such an easy read and I even shed a tear a few times.  It was just so genuine (but not too earnest) and heartfelt. And well written -- so many references to other books and lots of food talk for good measure. If you like books about friendship,  give this one a read!

Kate & Friday comes out next week on March 11, 2025, and you can purchase HERE!  I love this book!!
Is this letter sounding like the unabridged version of a personal ad in the back of the L.A. Times? Single brownish-whitish girl, nonsmoking, loves kebabs and long walks on the beach, tired of yuppies and New Petulance and wants to do something of consequence before she wakes up one day and she's thirty and it's too late!

How's that for a slapdash answer to your questions? My problem is I can type on my mom's old très chic portable Hermes Rocket faster than I can think. Well one of my problems.

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