Eventually Catherine leaves for Paris and David settles in with Marita. Things become more complicated when another women, Marita, enters the relationship and she is both treated as a mistress for both David and Catherine, which coupled with Catherine’s need to change her gender and David’s unacceptance of it, is tearing the couple away. it doesn’t help that Catherine also intrudes in David’s writing and wants to change the narrative of his stories to reflect their life. Catherine then decides that she wants to change her gender and she does so by changing her hairstyle and wearing clothing associated with males (do remember the book was written in 1946) David, does not like this change and it creates a rift in their relationship. As my reads are chosen by picking titles out of a jar, I expected to read it well into 2024 but it came up so, well, I read it.ĭavid, an author and Catherine are newlyweds spending their ‘honeymoon’ in France. My reason for reading it was because later on this year Weatherglass Books will be publishing a novel based on Garden of Eden so I wanted to read the book beforehand. The garden of Eden is Ernest Hemingway’s last book published posthumously in 1986 thihs book surprised a lot of people for the reasons I’ll give below.
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