Author Talk! Ashtrays are Full & the Glasses are Empty with Kirsten Mickelwait

Author Kirsten Mickelwait will present her novel, The Ashtrays Are Full and the Glasses are Empty (published in May 2025). About a well-known society couple of New York’s Gilded Age: heiress Sara Wiborg and Gerald Murphy. Sara dreams of a more creative life than the rigid future prescribed for her. After a friendship of eleven years, they marry despite the strong disapproval of her family.

Against the sizzling Jazz Age backdrop of 1920s Paris and Antibes, Sara’s innate style and gift for friendship attract the bohemian elite of the new century-including Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Picasso, and Dorothy Parker. But by the 1930s, her fortune is lost and tragedy strikes-not once, but twice. A heartbreaking story of love and loss, The Ashtrays Are Full and the Glasses Are Empty follows Sara through her very modern life to reveal how tragedy can be healed by faith, unconditional love, and a creative mind. Questions, call (510) 620-6567 For other events, see www.Facebook.com/rplwestside