LAUNCH PARTY: Honeysuckle by Bar Fridman-Tell

Join us on March 24, 2026 at 6:00 PM for the unveiling of the exciting new release HONEYSUCKLE by author Bar Fridman-Tell. Joining Fridman-Tell in conversation will be author Maddie Martinez (THE MAIDEN AND HER MONSTER).

About the HONEYSUCKLE:

The Bear and the Nightingale meets Weyward in this enchanting, deeply compelling debut about love and power, autonomy and consent.
Once upon a time, on the edge between meadow and forest, there was a lonely child with only his older sister for company. In exchange for being left in peace, his sister made him a playmate-Daye, a girl woven from flowers and words. And for the first time, this boy, Rory, had a friend.
Rory couldn't be happier, until he learns that Daye is a short-lived creature. At the end of each season, she must be woven back together or fall gruesomely apart. And every time Daye falls apart might be her last.
As Rory and Daye grow older and the line between friendship and romance begins to blur, Rory becomes desperate to break this cycle of bloom and decay. But the farther Rory pushes his research and experiments to lengthen Daye's existence, the more Daye begins to wonder just how much control she really has over her own life.
As a loose reimagining of the story of Blodeuwedd from Welsh mythology, Honeysuckle is an entrancing, inventive, and unsettling debut.

About the Authors:

Bar Fridman-Tell has a BA in art history and an MA in English literature. (She gleefully wrote her thesis about Victorian vampires.) She has worked as a bartender, a bookseller, a translator, and a library assistant. She is currently studying for a master's in library and information sciences at the University of Toronto, hoping to stay in a library for good. She lives in Toronto with her professor husband and two very fluffy cats. Honeysuckle is her debut novel.

Maddie Martinez was born and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She has a bachelor's in political science from Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, and a master's in international peace and conflict resolution from American University in Washington, DC. You can now find Maddie in the New York City area, filling her tiny apartment with an unwieldy number of books. The Maiden and Her Monster is her first novel and was an instant USA Today bestseller.

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