SO LONG

BY REBEKAH SELLERS (MACOMB)

“So long you chaps. You’ve been damned nice.”
– Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

This past February, my husband and I took our first vacation since 2018: we went to Key West.  Since we visited Ernest Hemingway’s home on the trip (and our 6-hour return flight turned into a 10-hour flight with an extra 4-hour layover), I downloaded my first Ernest Hemingway novel, “The Sun Also Rises,” to read in the airport.  Something about it really resonated with me, and I finished it by the time we were home. 

​In a nutshell, the book is about a group of young American expatriate friends whose lives have been upended by WWI and they are more or less transients living adventure-to-adventure across Europe. During their travels, in seemingly innocuous ways, they end up having brief but meaningful discussions about life’s purpose and trying to find the best way to spend one’s time on earth. 

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