Where to buy NOBUKO by Trisha Ready

The online FrizzLit Editions bookstore is now open

Nobuko, Trisha Ready’s debut novel, is now available at Elliott Bay Book Company — or from FrizzLit Editions’s online bookstore

Until recently, the only place to buy Nobuko was Elliott Bay Books on Capitol Hill in Seattle.

That’s where Trisha Ready read from her brilliant debut novel on August 22.

Now our online bookstore is open as well.

Click here to get your copy.

Trisha Ready reading from Nobuko on August 22, 2025 — before telling the crowd how the idea for the book came to her.

The crowd at Elliott Bay included bold-faced names and friends of FrizzLit like Tim Keck, Alison Hirsch, Claire Stimson, Alida Latham, Carmen Bendixen, Christopher Latham, Brangien Davis, and Victor Morgan.

The readings have been packed, the crowds have been enthusiastic, and lots of friends of FrizzLit have shown up to help us celebrate.

Trisha Ready onstage at Elliott Bay with her partner Frith, to whom the book is dedicated.

A week after the Seattle launch, we launched the book down in Portland.

BOLD Coffee & Books hosted the Portland launch of the book on September 6, 2025. The book is available for sale there as well. This crowd includes FrizzLit book club members Steve Grover, Polly Dugan, Michael Corrigan, and Suzie Baunsgard.

The crowd at BOLD also included Joanna Miller (left), who copyedited Nobuko, and Jake Rummel (center), who produced the audiobook.

Trisha Ready autographing copies of her novel Nobuko at Elliott Bay. If you contributed to the kickstarter that funded FrizzLit Editions, you will get a signed copy of the book in the mail.

We love our bookstore partners — and we’re hoping to expand to more bookstores soon — but we earn more proceeds from direct sales online, so we’re encouraging online says as well.

Someone who bought Nobuko at Elliott Bay took it to a coffee shop and read it one sitting.

Then she sent us a fan letter saying:

What a tender, beautiful, insightful, vivid, charming, humorous and life-affirming book.

I felt transported into her life in Japan, so alive with new friendships and experiences.

It renewed my energy to live with openness to chance and change.

Here’s to that!

Trisha Ready receives her flowers.