Book For Review Courtesy of NetGalley / Koehler Books
Imagine a life on the French Riviera where the liquor flows freely, the conversations with Picasso, Fitzgerald, and Hemingway are fascinating, the money never runs out, and you have the lives of Sara and Gerald Murphy. Kirsten Mickelwait's novel The Ashtrays Are Full and the Glasses Are Empty chronicles the lives of these American ex-pat bon vivants and their entertaining of the artistic elite. The novel explores Sara's life from her beginning as a marriage resistant debutant through her marriage to Gerald, life among the glitterati of the "Lost Generation," to unimaginable tragedy. The novel is a loving tribute to geniuses and those who nurture them, even to their own detriment.
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