The wildest sun : a novel /
Material type: TextPublisher: [New York] : Dutton, [2023]Copyright date: 2023Description: 323 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780593185711
- 0593185714
- 9780593475423
- 0593475429
- Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 -- Fiction
- Mothers -- Death -- Fiction
- Fathers and daughters -- Fiction
- FICTION / Coming of Age
- Teenagers -- Fiction
- Women authors -- Fiction
- Paternity -- Fiction
- Nineteen forties -- Fiction
- Voyages and travels -- Fiction
- Children of alcoholics -- Fiction
- Paris (France) -- Fiction
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction
- Key West (Fla.) -- Fiction
- Cuba -- Fiction
- 813/.6 23/eng/20231106
- PS3612.E456 W55 2023
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Following her New York Times bestselling debut Fifty Words for Rain , Asha Lemmie's next sweeping and evocative novel introduces a determined young woman's search for the larger-than-life literary figure she believes to be her father.
When tragedy forces Delphine Auber, an aspiring writer on the cusp of adulthood, from her home in postwar Paris, she seizes the opportunity to embark on the journey she's long dreamed of: finding the father she has never known. But her quest--spanning from Paris to New York's Harlem, to Havana and Key West--is complicated by the fact that she believes him to be famed luminary Ernest Hemingway, a man just as elusive as he is iconic. She desperately yearns for his approval, as both a daughter and a writer, convinced that he holds the key to who she's truly meant to be. But what will happen if she is wrong, or if her real story falls outside of the legend of her parentage that she's revered all her life?
The Wildest Sun is a dazzling, unexpected, and transportive story about coming into adulthood--from escaping our pasts, to the stories we tell ourselves, to the ambition that drives us--as we seek to find out who we are.
Forced from her home in postwar Paris, aspiring young writer Delphine Auber embarks on a journey to New York's Harlem, and then to Havana and Key West, in search of her father, whom she believes is famed luminary Ernest Hemingway.
"When tragedy forces Delphine Auber, an aspiring writer on the cusp of adulthood, from her home in postwar Paris, she seizes the opportunity to embark on the journey she's long dreamed of: finding the father she has never known. But her quest--spanning from Paris to New York's Harlem, to Havana and Key West--is complicated by the fact that she believes him to be famed luminary Ernest Hemingway, a man just as elusive as he is iconic. She desperately yearns for his approval, as both a daughter and a writer, convinced that he holds the key to who she's truly meant to be. But what will happen if she is wrong, or if her real story falls outside of the legend of her parentage that she's revered all her life? The Wildest Sun is a dazzling, unexpected, and transportive story about coming into adulthood--from escaping our pasts, to the stories we tell ourselves, to the ambition that drives us--as we seek to find out who we are"--
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Publishers Weekly Review
Lemmie (Fifty Words for Rain) delivers a lackluster tale of an aspiring writer who grew up believing she's the daughter of Ernest Hemingway and hopes that meeting him will bring fulfillment. Since childhood, Delphine Auber, now 17 in 1945 Paris, has taken care of her alcoholic mother Sylvie, who was once a friend to the Lost Generation writers and claimed Hemingway is Delphine's father. Following Sylvie's death, Delphine leaves Paris for New York City and lives in Harlem with Blue and Delia, family friends who show her parental love for the first time. She befriends Teddy, an ill-fated actress whose beauty and hard drinking remind Delphine of her mother. Desperate to fund a trip to Cuba to meet Hemingway, Delphine steals money from Teddy's boyfriend. After arriving in Havana in December 1946, she hires a Spanish tutor who encourages her to approach Hemingway. She does, while Hemingway is fishing, but she's afraid to take the conversation beyond small talk ("Papa didn't claim me on sight," she narrates dejectedly). The prose is hackneyed, but Lemmie manages to generate empathy for Delphine as she stays on in Cuba, where she reconsiders her assumptions about her paternity after receiving a letter from an old friend of Sylvie's and tries her own hand at writing. This one's for Lost Generation obsessives only. (Dec.)Kirkus Book Review
A search for her father takes a 16-year-old Parisienne on a voyage of self-discovery across two continents and two decades. When we meet Delphine in September 1945, she tells us she has killed someone but gives no details until much later. We know right away who she thinks her father is: Ernest Hemingway, who Delphine's mother says was her lover for two years before their baby was born in 1929 and he decamped to the U.S. Despite having dealt with her mother's alcoholism and unreliability throughout her childhood, Delphine fiercely believes this to be true. This conviction carries her first to New York, where she takes refuge in Harlem with a nurturing Black couple who knew her mother in Paris, then later to Havana, where she has heard Hemingway is living. Her quest for Papa is the narrative line on which Lemmie hangs a touching coming-of-age tale. Delphine exhibits the classic traumatized personality of an alcoholic's child: simultaneously guilty and angry. She assuages the guilt in New York by befriending and trying to help a drug-addicted party girl; when that blows up, she flees for Havana. There, she settles in to write the novels that will show Papa she is truly his daughter. She does eventually make contact, but the novel's central action over the next 14 years is Delphine's slow maturation, which includes clearer-eyed assessments of her mother, Hemingway, and even his books that she once uncritically admired. Her growth is fostered in large part by Javier, initially hired as her guide and translator but ultimately her friend and savvy mentor. Castro's overthrow of the Batista regime paves the way for the final stage in Delphine's odyssey. She has chronicled her struggles and insecurities so affectingly that readers are likely to be tolerant of closing chapters that too neatly wrap up a plot grounded in messy ambiguities. A strong story with an engaging protagonist. Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.Author notes provided by Syndetics
Asha Lemmie is the New York Times bestselling author of Fifty Words For Rain and The Wildest Sun. She holds a BA in English Literature from Boston College and is currently a graduate student at Columbia University. She resides in New York City but can frequently be found wandering. Asha writes historical fiction that focuses on bringing unique perspectives to life.There are no comments on this title.