This book is a wild masterpiece:
It is about everything that matters: mortality, motherhood, desire, love, the body, art, writing, survival, wrote
Matthew Zapruder, the American poet, editor, translator.
A New York Times-bestselling author's personal examination of how the experiences, art, and disabilities of Frida Kahlo shaped her life as an amputee.
At first sight of Frida Kahlo’s painting The Two Fridas, Emily Rapp Black felt a connection with the artist.
Kahlo sustained lifelong injuries after a horrific bus crash, and her right leg was eventually amputated. In Kahlo’s art, Rapp Black recognized her own life, from the numerous operations to the compulsion to create to silence pain. Here she tells her story of losing her infant son to Tay-Sachs, giving birth to a daughter, and learning to accept her body. She writes of how Frida Kahlo inspired her to find a way forward when all seemed lost.
“With endless intellect and intimacy, Emily Rapp brings us a book without parallel, a book that will become well-worn by readers who have passed it on, saying, here, you have to read this," said Katie Ford, poet.
