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Love & saffron : a novel of friendship, food, and love
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- ISBN: 9780593419335
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Physical Description:
193 pages ; 21 cm
regular print
print - Publisher: New York, New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, [2022]
- Copyright: ©2022
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| Subject: | Female friendship -- Fiction Food writers -- Fiction Nineteen sixties -- Fiction |
| Genre: | Historical fiction. |
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- 0 of 1 copy available at Bowen Island Public Library.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bowen Island Public Library | F FAY (Text) | 30947000634705 | Fiction | Volume hold | Checked out | 2024-05-28 |
- Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2021 November #1
Fiction and culinary travel writer Fay (The Map of Lost Memories, 2012) has crafted a delectable second novel showing how food can bring people together, even across distances and cultures. In October 1962, Joan Bergstrom, an unmarried 27-year-old from L.A., sends an admiring fan letter to Mrs. Imogen Fortier, author of a magazine column on Pacific Northwest island life. To thank her, Joan shares a favorite mussels recipe and encloses a saffron packet. The story is mostly told via the women's warm-hearted correspondence. They become close while exchanging thoughts on food, their personal lives, and contemporary society. Their connection nurtures them during tough times and draws in others as well. Imogen's WWI-veteran husband, Francis, impresses her with his newfound interest in French cooking, while Joan's friendship with her neighbors' Mexican carpenter, begun over a shared meal, develops into something more. Fay's emotionally generous novel demonstrates how people's worlds can expand when they open themselves to new possibilities. Readers will be touched by this enriching tale and inspired to embark on their own international culinary adventures. Copyright 2021 Booklist Reviews. - Kirkus Reviews : Kirkus Reviews 2021 December #1
Two women, one in Los Angeles and the other on an island near Seattle, strike up a correspondence that blossoms into a deep friendship in the early 1960s. When Miss Joan Bergstrom, then 27, sends a packet of saffron she has picked up on her travels to Mrs. Imogen Fortier, the author of a column she enjoys in Northwest Home & Life magazine, a correspondence between the two women begins. Imogen leaps into the friendship with both feet despite their 32-year age difference, as does Joan. What starts out as the occasional chat about food evolves into much more as the women expand their horizonsâJoan with a new job as a reporter on the women's pages of the Los Angeles Herald Examiner and an exploration of the wide variety of foods available in Los Angeles, and Imogen with new tastes and recipes that bring Francis, her husband of four decades, out of the shell he's lived in since the Great War. Author Fay has written an all-too-brief novel that explores how the women's friendship evolves and deepens when they open up to each other. In their letters, Joan and Imogen show their true selves, exploring their experiences and their thoughts about love, mental health, sadness, difficult decisions, and unexpected joys. Fay's touch is deft, and the information is received by both women with love and acceptance without becoming cloying to the reader. Written primarily in the form of letters sent between 1962 and 1965, the story also explores how adventures in the culinary world redefine the women's relationships with happiness, food, and new experiences. The story leaves the reader wanting moreâmore recipes, more letters, more time in the gentle, unfolding friendship of these two women. A glimpse into a friendship that doesn't hesitate to touch on joy, sadness, love, and death. Copyright Kirkus 2021 Kirkus/BPI Communications. All rights reserved.
