Kat's Kosmic Blues

By Patricia J. Parsons

Katherine Wilson Hudson is hell-bent on becoming a fashion designer. It’s the mid-1960s and everything about the decade just smells of sex, drugs and rock and roll – but not in Kat’s world. In her small-city life, her parents adamantly refuse to let her go to art school, instead insisting that she do what any proper ‘60’s girls should do – become a teacher – and find a husband. Kat tries to be the “good girl” for two long years, but that somehow doesn’t sit well with her. When the opportunity for a scholarship presents itself, she ends up in New York City, a fashion design student at the prestigious Parsons School, the small-town girl trying to figure out where she really belongs.

Against the backdrop of the war in Vietnam, race riots and the burgeoning women’s movement, Kat must navigate the chasm between her seemingly superficial desire to be a part of the fashion world, and the real-life choices that will ultimately define who she really is. When she finds herself at Woodstock, a weekend-hippie, she begins to realize that her grandmother was right when she told her that life would never be about finding herself. It would be about creating herself.

Determined to create the life she envisions, Kat faces one personal crisis after another before joining forces with an unlikely associate. And eventually figuring out who she is. “If you want to make god laugh,” her grandmother, Fran, had told her, “tell her your plans.”

• Language: English
• Publisher: Patricia J. Parsons
• Release date: Feb 14, 2021
• ISBN: 9781777243166

Patricia J. Parsons

Patricia J. Parsons (aka P J Parsons) has written a dozen books, including health and business books, as well as a memoir and two historical novels in addition to her women’s fiction. She has been a fashion design and sewing fanatic for most of her life, a passion she writes about online at The GG Files blog. She lives, writes and sews in Toronto. Connect with her on Instagram @patriciajparsons Join her on Facebook @patriciaparsonswriter Visit her website at www.patriciajparsons.com Some other books by Patricia J. Parsons The almost-but-not-quite-true stories The Year I Made 12 Dresses (Book 1) Kat’s Kosmic Blues (Book 2) The Inscrutable Life of Frannie Phillips (Book 3) Something I’m Supposed to Do (Book 4) Other Fiction Plan B (lit-for-intelligent-chicks) Confessions of a Failed Yuppie (lit-for-intelligent-chicks) Something More Than Love (historical fiction) Grace Note: In Hildegard’s Shadow (historical fiction)

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