We’re asking people who made a splash in 2019 one question: If you could give everyone in Seattle one book as a gift this holiday season, what book would you choose and why? This week’s gift-giver is Kate Berwanger, the prolific indie writer and event producer who has taken the city by storm over the last year or so. You can visit her shop on Etsy or drop by the retail space she co-founded, Ace of Wands, in the Georgetown Trailer Park. Give some special attention to her great poster-zine full of recommendations of books written by women. For her book recommendation for all of Seattle, Berwanger recommends...

Love Me Back by Merritt Tierce. I was shopping at Elliott Bay for a book that should have lived on the shelf next to this one. It wasn't there, but Tierce fell into my hands. And I won't spoil a perfectly good gift by explaining why I'm giving it to you.