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When 27-year-old Joan Bergstrom sends a fan letter - as well as a gift of saffron - to 59-year-old Imogen Fortier, a life-changing friendship begins. Joan lives in Los Angeles and is just starting out as a writer for the newspaper food pages. Imogen lives on Camano Island outside Seattle, writing a monthly column for a Pacific Northwest magazine, and while she can hunt elk and dig for clams, she's never tasted fresh garlic - exotic fare in the Northwest US of the 1960s.

Twentysomething Frida Rodriguez arrives in Paris in 1991, relishing the city’s butter-soaked cuisine and seeking her future as a war correspondent. But then she writes to a bookshop in Seattle, and receives more than just the book she requests. A friendship begins that will redefine the person she wants to become.

Irene Blum, 29 år og ekspert i khmerernes historie, forlader i vrede sit job på Brooke Museum i Seattle, da hun bliver forbigået ved ansættelse af museets nye direktør til fordel for en mandlig kollega. Hun rejser til Shanghai for at opsøge Simone Merlin, der ligeledes er ekspert i Cambodjas historie og kultur; sammen skal de finde nogle sagnomspundne skriftruller med historiske optegnelser om khmerriget, og dette fund skal bringe Irene tilbage "i kampen" for anseelse i museumsverden og hævn over Brooke Museum. Det er imidlertid ikke så let blot at drage ud i junglen og bringe et nationalklenodie med sig hjem.