Following her New York Times bestselling debut Fifty Words for Rain, Asha Lemmie’s next sweeping and evocative novel introduces a determined young womanssearch for thelarger-than-lifeliterary figure she believes to be her father.

When tragedyforces Delphine Auber, an aspiring writer on the cusp of adulthood, from her home in postwar Paris, she seizes the opportunity to embark on the journeyshe’s long dreamed of: finding the father she has never known.But her questspanning from Paris to New Yorks Harlem, to Havana and Key Westis complicated by the fact that she believes him to be famed luminary Ernest Hemingway, a man just as elusive as he is iconic.Shedesperately yearns for his approval, as both a daughter and a writer, convinced that he holds the key to who she’s truly meant to be.Butwhat will happen if she is wrong, orif her real story falls outside of the legend of her parentage that shes revered all her life?

The Wildest Sun isa dazzling, unexpected, and transportive story about coming into adulthoodfrom escaping our pasts, to the stories we tell ourselves, to the ambition that drives usas we seek to find out who we are.