Raised amid great wealth and privilege, Sara Wiborg Murphy rejects her family’s traditional values to build a golden life of creativity and beauty amid the Lost Generation in France.

 

This lush historical novel follows Sara from New York to Paris and Antibes and back again. Wherever she lands, her flair for celebrating life and the people around her makes her a doyenne of the bohemian elite.

 

With her husband, Gerald, she befriends such literary and artistic icons as Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Pablo Picasso, and Dorothy Parker. But when tragedy strikes her family not once but twice, she must learn to accept that perhaps a larger hand holds the keys to her fate.

 

Over time, Sara’s strength and resilience allow her to find a new equilibrium—long after the parties have ended. The Ashtrays Are Full and the Glasses Are Empty follows Sara through her very modern life to reveal how heartbreak can be healed by faith, unconditional love, and a creative mind.