The Ashtrays Are Full and the Glasses Are Empty

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Fans of Paula McLain and Marie Benedict will enjoy this insightful novel.</span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>-<em> Kirkus Reviews</em></strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)></span>Micklewait provides a jewel box of a book illustrating that none of us invented the fight for a singularly creative life. <strong style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>- </strong><strong>Randy Susan Meyers internationally bestselling author of The Many Mothers of Ivy Puddingstone</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Raised in New York's Gilded Age pampered heiress Sara Wiborg dreams of a more creative life than the rigid future prescribed for her. It's only when she meets Gerald Murphy that she finds a man who shares her creative aesthetic ideal and after a friendship of eleven years they marry despite the strong disapproval of her family.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Against the sizzling Jazz Age backdrop of 1920s Paris and Antibes Sara's innate style and gift for friendship attract the bohemian elite of the new century-including Hemingway Fitzgerald Picasso and Dorothy Parker. But by the 1930s her fortune is lost and tragedy strikes-not once but twice. Sara's strength and resilience allow her to find a new equilibrium over time long after the parties have ended. A heartbreaking story of love and loss </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>The Ashtrays Are Full and the Glasses Are Empty</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> follows Sara through her very modern life to reveal how tragedy can be healed by faith unconditional love and a creative mind. </span></p>