By Nancy Horan
An early 20th century story about the turbulent love affair between Frank Lloyd Wright, the famous architect, and Mamah Borthwick Cheney and its tragic consequences. The focus of the book is Mamah, an intelligent, educated woman, married to another, in a time where such an affair was a scandal. Mamah got a divorce from her husband but Frank's wife refused to divorce him. As in other stories whose main characters are brave women ahead of their time, not able fulfill themselves, in this book, the female protagonist pays a heavy price in the end. We go through Mamah emotional pain, doubts and her complicated relations with others beside Frank. We learn a lot about an unforgiving, condemning public that would not accept the affair and who saw her as an unfit mother and a home wrecker.
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