Hunting With Hemingway (8)

Hunting With Hemingway
Hilary Hemingway and Jeffrey P. Lindsay

This is a book I picked up at the library book sale. It is the stories of Les Hemingway, younger brother of Ernest about their adventures hunting together. The book is written by his daughter Hilary. The book is less about Hemingway and more about personal exploration.
Hilary's mother has just passed away and leaves her an audio tape of her father who had died 15 years previously. The tape is a recording of her father talking with an author sitting by a bon fire, and talking about his life and experiences with his brother. We learn that Les took the "family exit" (suicide) and that Hilary, although in college at the time, never made peace with this. The tape finally lets her understand her father and the decision he made. Along the way there are some wonderful stories and interaction with the author and her young daughter as they listen to the tape.
A wonderful book even if you are not a Hemingway fan.