Review & Giveaway Hemingway's Girl by Erika Robuck
Set in depression era, Key West Florida, Mariella Bennet has even rougher than most. She is only 18 years old and her fisherman, father recently died, leave her mother, two younger sisters and herself. Her mother, still greiving is unable to care for the family, she just sits in her chair day after day smoking. It is up to Mariella to care for and feed the family.
At first she was taking odd jobs on the docks and some of the fishermen who knew her father would give her a fish to feed the family. However, her luck changed when she went to a boxing match at the area bar, Slopy Joes, dressed as a boy. That was when she first met Ernest Hemingway.
He told her that he always wanted a daughter and that she should call him Papa. They started going out together, he at 35 years of age but she also meets one of the boxers, Gavin from that night's match. Will she end up with either of them?
Finally, Mariella gets up the nerve to ask Hemingway for a job and starts working at his family estate. His wife, Pauline isn't too happy about it because she know her husband has his sights on Mariella. However, now Mariella is bringing home pay every week and can better care for the family.
Full with a cast of both regular and eccentic charicters Erika Robuck makes use of a hurricane to build tensions in this book. She examines Hemingway, the man in his habitat and shows though he did appear larger than life, he was just a man. With warts and all.
I really enjoyed this book for the laid back summer read it was and warmed up to it more and more as I read more. The story was written is an easy to read style. I would have like the author to delve a bit deeper but like I said, I still enjoyed it.
3.5/5
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I received a copy of this book for my honest review.
Thanks to Heidi Richter Senior Publicist at Penguin Group ( USA), Inc., I am giving away one copy of Hemingway's Daughter. This giveaway is open to Canada and the U.S. and ends on October 11, 2012. Please use Rafflecopter to enter.
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A facinating novel. Thanks for this giveaway. saubleb(at)gmail(dot)com
traveler said... September 27, 2012 at 6:54 AM
I love the time period and the setting so this sounds good to me!
bermudaonion said... September 27, 2012 at 7:34 AM
Living in Florida, I love novels that take place here. And Hemingway is just such a compelling person to read about. Thanks for the giveaway!
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Colleen Turner said... September 27, 2012 at 11:43 AM
Read a lot about the is book love to read about hemingway.
rhonda said... September 27, 2012 at 12:45 PM
Hemingway was such a unique person. I would love to read this.
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Sandra K321 said... September 27, 2012 at 1:49 PM
I don't know all that much about Hemingway - what I do know I learned from my boyfriend's mom who visited his home last year. I would love to win the book as a gift to her!
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Unknown said... September 27, 2012 at 3:59 PM
I think it sounds like a pretty creative idea for a story. The eccentric characters and even the hurricane angle appeal to me too. Thanks!
holdenj said... September 28, 2012 at 6:14 AM
I've been to Kay West once and this little piece of history would be very interesting to read.
Literary Chanteuse said... September 28, 2012 at 3:03 PM
Hemingway lead an interesting life and would to read this book.
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misskallie2000 said... September 28, 2012 at 5:27 PM
Sounds like a great book. Love Key West as the setting.
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Kitty said... September 29, 2012 at 10:15 AM
This book caught my eye at Barnes & Noble today. I would love to read it. Love the time period it is set in plus the fact it weaves fiction with a "real" character. :) I enjoyed your review of it too. :) Thanks to you and Penguin for the giveaway.
Beverly S. said... September 29, 2012 at 7:15 PM
Read great reviews of this book thanks for giveaway
rhonda said... October 6, 2012 at 10:43 AM
Interesting time period
bn100 said... October 25, 2013 at 6:05 PM
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