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From the bestselling author of The House of Hawthorne comes a historical fiction novel that gives life to the women behind novelist Ernest Hemingway in a "robust, tender story of love, grief, and survival on Key West in the 1930s."* In Depression-era Key West, Mariella Bennet,... Read Full Overview

" She remembered when Hemingway had planted a banyan tree at his house and told her its parasitic roots were like human desire. At the time she d thought it romantic. She hadn t understood his warning. " In Depression-era Key West, Mariella Bennet, the daughter of an American... Read Full Overview

"She remembered when Hemingway had planted a banyan tree at his house and told her its parasitic roots were like human desire. At the time she'd thought it romantic. She hadn't understood his warning." In Depression-era Key West, Mariella Bennet, the daughter of an American... Read Full Overview