“Back in 1986, I read this book when I was having an iniquious battle for the dissolution of my first marriage and I was caught up in Frida Kahlo's biography. In fact I think is very trustworthy and it tells a rough truth in Kahlo's hazardous life. I wonder if, in times soon to come, this book will seem to me as eternally interesting as Frida Kahlo's paintings still do? When I went to an exhibition of Kahlo's last masterpieces in Paris in 1987 during my tug of love for my elder daughter, I almost couldn't bear Kahlo's paintings about her miscarriage. I thought "I wannot to be here!" ... but her resilient inner strenght was an object lesson for me... and I wish I would have told her that! Paint-brush is mightier than the sword, isn't it?”
Elisabeth B wrote this review Saturday, January 12 2008.
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