Three Mangoes for Hemingway: A Road Trip Novel
About The Book
Some debts outlast the people who incur them. Some stories become truer with each generation that carries them forward.
Since his father’s sudden death, Felix Garcia has held his family’s grocery empire together through discipline and the stubborn refusal to believe in anything he can’t verify. His grandfather Juan built that empire improbably from three mango stones his mother carried out of Cuba in 1953, stolen, the story goes, from Ernest Hemingway’s garden. Felix considers it harmless myth.
Then Juan calls his grandsons home and insists they’re driving to Key West. He has three mango saplings in clay pots, a leather satchel full of secrets, and an unshakable conviction. It’s time, he tells them, to return what was borrowed.
Pragmatic Felix sees a detour he can’t afford. His younger brother Bolivar, restless and drawn to stories, sees a thread worth tracing.
From New Jersey bodegas where strangers remember their grandmother’s jam to humid Key West nights where promises kept waiting for decades, the road south asks more of the Garcia men than any of them expected.
Three Mangoes for Hemingway is a novel about the faith it takes to honor family myths you cannot prove.
Along with the full story, you’ll find a comprehensive Reading Group Guide featuring thought-provoking discussion questions and thematic explorations that are perfect for book clubs, reading groups, and educators. This complete guide brings the story to life and sparks meaningful conversations, making it an ideal choice for group reading experiences.
Begin The Journey
Searching for Margarito Temprana: A Barcelona Novella of Scent and Stone
About The Book
Marina has three days to find what her father has spent thirty years missing. Armed with architectural precision, and a carefully researched list, she believes Barcelona’s Gothic Quarter will yield the last bottle of Memoria, a legendary cologne that vanished with its reclusive creator. But what happens when her methodical plans meet a city that refuses to be mapped?
Time is running out in more ways than one. While Marina should be preparing for the architectural review that will cap her summer graduate program, she finds herself drawn deeper into the Gothic Quarter’s maze of ancient stones, hidden courtyards, and forgotten passages that hold secrets connecting a vanished perfumer to her father’s past in ways she never imagined. As the scents of gardenia and bergamot lead her through Barcelona’s sensory labyrinth, Marina begins to question whether she’s searching for the right thing at all.
With each passing day, the line between preservation and creation blurs. What started as a quest to surprise her father becomes something far more profound, a journey that will transform not only how Marina sees Barcelona’s timeless conversation between past and present, but how she understands her own relationship to legacy, craft, and discovery.
In a city where every stone holds memory and every scent carries stories, Marina is about to learn that the most important searches are the ones you never planned to make.
Along with the full story, you’ll find a comprehensive Reading Group Guide featuring thought-provoking discussion questions and thematic explorations that are perfect for book clubs, reading groups, and educators. This complete guide brings the story to life and sparks meaningful conversations, making it an ideal choice for group reading experiences.
Includes comprehensive Reading Group Guide.
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