Also: Kingsolver did it again. 40 pages from the end of _The Lacuna_ and the protagonist suffers a grave injustice that left me outraged and furious! She is excellent at stirring emotional investment and then punching the reader in the face with it!
I was also curious about the Frida Kahlo connection. The protagonist in the book is gay. FK's affairs are documented - but only, as far as I recall, the ones with men. Perhaps the chronologies just didn't align.
I'd like to say that there was something awry with the book's structure, too. At the halfway point, I definitely thought this. But as I said, by the close I was so invested in the text that it turned out to really work.
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