Kate & Frida: A Novel of Friendship, Food, and Books Ella Kasperowicz Finalist for the National Book

Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography

With Mom and Dad’s love and wisdom

and obscure animals

Anyone who has lost a pet or loved one will be comforted by Bertle’s journey to acceptance and reassured by the fact that

the queen of the Chicago drag scene

Kate & Frida: A Novel of Friendship, Food, and Books Ella Kasperowicz Finalist for the National BookFrom the author of instant 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. Sometimes a book can change your life Twentysomething Frida Rodriguez arrives in Paris in 1991, relishing the citys butter soaked cuisine and seeking her future as a war correspondent. But then she writes to a bookshop