Fat Soul Fridays is the sequel to the Metaphor Maker. Set in 2010, Madeline Prescott returns as a newly retired philosophy professor, adrift with an uncharted future. In an impetuous move, she and her British-American husband, Alex Moore, venture back to the place where they first met to re-open Van Gelder's Tea and Books with the hopes of recapturing something of their youth. But instead, they find themselves embroiled in the crises of their little...