Kim Fay Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/authors/kim-fay/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Sun, 23 Mar 2025 17:05:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/cropped-books-on-table-2-150x150.jpg Kim Fay Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/authors/kim-fay/ 32 32 38398750 Kate & Frida: A Novel of Friendship, Food, and Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/03/kate-frida-a-novel-of-friendship-food-and-books/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/03/kate-frida-a-novel-of-friendship-food-and-books/#comments Mon, 24 Mar 2025 07:17:55 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=19046 It begins with a letter sent from Paris to Seattle. Nothing romantic or between friends, but business because in 1991 that’s how these things were done. Frida writes to the Puget Sound Book Store looking for a book. Kate is the employee delegated with filling this customer request. Neither could know that this brief correspondence […]

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