https://www.kimfaybooks.com/home daily 1.0 2026-03-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/618d5dd1039ce34c777ec77d/21825228-3b0e-4e1b-b53e-d158a1319d3f/Kate%26Frida+2.jpg Home - Kate & Frida From the author of national bestseller Love & Saffron, this bright and comforting novel follows the surprising friendship between two young women in 1990s Seattle and Paris, illuminating the power of books to change our lives. https://www.kimfaybooks.com/about daily 0.75 2026-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/618d5dd1039ce34c777ec77d/f98e9d16-f59c-4194-8843-b4b6b23d5c8f/Kim+Fay_Author+Photo_v2.jpg About the Author Author photo by Julie Fay Ashborn https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/618d5dd1039ce34c777ec77d/9a05a876-e6fc-451f-865f-14f1386401fa/LoveAndFateCoverJPEG.jpg About the Author “‘America’s Road’ is a lost Tom Petty Song.” - Music Connection Magazine. Check out LOVE & FATE on Spotify. 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One recipe. A friendship for the ages. Creamy Risotto alla Milanese. Mussels in a hot, buttery broth. Chicken spiced with cinnamon and cloves. In 1960s America, Joan Bergstrom and Imogen Fortier understand the key to a savored life—delicious food. Young Joan is just discovering herself as a food writer in bustling Los Angeles, while experienced columnist Imogen is settled in her decades-long marriage on Camano Island outside Seattle. When Joan sends a fan letter to Imogen with an enclosed packet of saffron and a recipe, their journey of culinary exploration, soul-deep friendship, and personal transformation begins. A long-lost flavor surfaces buried memories, shifting Imogen’s relationship with her husband into something new and exciting, and a quest to make carne asada opens the doors of a sheltered life, showing Joan that true love does not always come in the form we expect it to. As their horizons expand, their friendship becomes their anchor and the mirror through which each better sees and understands herself. Into this beautiful, intimate world comes the ultimate test—of their belief that food and love can carry us through our darkest hours. 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Twenty-something Frida Rodriguez comes to 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 kiss her handsome coworker, to believe in herself as a writer, and to find beauty even in loss. Through the most tumultuous years of their young 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 even through our darkest hours. https://www.kimfaybooks.com/home-1 daily 0.75 2025-03-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1618511387030-5LI1E5QMVTQ2RY9S00A4/20140228_Trade+151_0046+1.jpg Kate & Frida https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1618511440608-5BVMHVN4WR2I9YQV1WWR/Aro+Ha_0010+1.jpg Kate & Frida https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1618511467879-K5J9BYNACHJVDV3BNSFU/Aro+Ha_0387+1.jpg Kate & Frida https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1618511743693-J3A8OYH6X8C7RXNU5K0J/20140301_Trade+151_0124+1.jpg Kate & Frida https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/618d5dd1039ce34c777ec77d/bf805b91-e17f-49bc-8355-25e6e7e02e4d/Kate%26Frida+1.jpg Kate & Frida - Kate & Frida A Novel of Friendship, Food, and Books A buoyant, mouth-watering oasis of a novel, Kate & Frida 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. Twenty-something Frida Rodriguez comes to 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 kiss her handsome coworker, to believe in herself as a writer, and to find beauty even in loss. Through the most tumultuous years of their young 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 even through our darkest hours.