num_pages: 326
description: She remembered when Hemingway had planted a banyan at his house and told her its parasitic roots were like human desire. At the time shed thought it romantic. She hadnt understood his warning.In Depression-era Key West Mariella Bennet the daughter of an American fisherman and a Cuban woman knows hunger. Her struggle to support her family following her fathers death leads her to a bar and bordello where she bets on a risky boxing match...and attracts the interest of two men: world-famous writer Ernest Hemingway and Gavin Murray one of the WWI veterans who are laboring to build the Overseas Highway.When Mariella is hired as a maid by Hemingways second wife Pauline she enters a rarified world of lavish celebrity-filled dinner parties and elaborate off-island excursions. As she becomes caught up in the tensions and excesses of the Hemingway household the attentions of the larger-than-life writer become a dangerous temptation...even as the reliable Gavin Murray draws her back to what matters most. Will she cross an invisible line with the volatile Hemingway or find a way to claim her own dreams? As a massive hurricane bears down on Key West Mariella faces some harsh truths...and the possibility of losing everything she loves.
language: English
title: Hemingway's Girl
publisher: NAL Trade