Read. Books. Must – Literary picks for May

“Love and Ruin” by Paula McLain is a
completely absorbing novel that captures the life of
legendary war correspondent Martha Gellhorn and her
tangled love affair with Ernest Hemingway. Gellhorn,
an independent and ambitious woman, evolves from a
burgeoning writer to a someone who is fully confident
in her own abilities. mcLain had previously explored
Hemingway’s romantic life in “The Paris Wife,” a 2011
New York Times bestseller.
Part of the Tobias Wolff American Li