We Might Just Make It After All by Elyce Arons

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We Might Just Make It After All is a moving portrait of the friendship between Elyce Arons and the fashion icon Kate Spade, with whom she cofounded the iconic fashion brand.

Set against the glitzy and gritty backdrop of downtown New York in the ’90’s, this memoir lovingly and candidly explores the power of friendship and the challenges facing female entrepreneurs at the time.

With Kate’s tragic suicide in 2018, I was worried that this book might be tell-all or exploitative and it is neither. Instead, as Elyce said, it is “about the life we shared before the shadows came—about the vibrant, witty, deeply present woman I knew better than almost anyone.”

I tore through the regular book, but I bet it would make for a great audiobook, too.

This one’s for you if:

• You saved your pennies for a Sam bag

• You waited on line to shop the annual Barney’s Warehouse sale in Chelsea.

• You want to be transported to the glory days of the ’90’s when the eyebrows were skinny and the lipstick was always Clinique Black Honey.