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The Wildest Sun
The Wildest Sun: A Novel | Asha Lemmie
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Following her New York Times bestselling debut Fifty Words for Rain, Asha Lemmie's next sweeping and evocative novel introduces a determined young womans 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 questspanning from Paris to New Yorks Harlem, to Havana and Key Westis 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 shes revered all her life? The Wildest Sun is a dazzling, unexpected, and transportive story about coming into adulthoodfrom escaping our pasts, to the stories we tell ourselves, to the ambition that drives usas we seek to find out who we are.
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MamaGina
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“If you keep talking like that you‘ll end up with no husband to love you. Alone in that house you want to buy so badly, surrounded by books and cats.” I snort and cast my eyes on the steeple of a cathedral that reminds me of home. He may think this is some great threat to me but….there are worse things. I see him looking at me out of the corner of his eye and I turn to him and give him a bright smile.
“Love is fickle. Books are eternal.”
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K.Wielechowski
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Mehso-so

Tragedy forces Delphine from her home in post-war Paris to Harlem, NY, then onto Havana, Cuba. She is an aspiring writer trying to follow in the footsteps of Hemingway, the man she believes is her father.

While Delphine shows amazing growth by the end of the book, I found her insufferable and selfish for most of it.