FRIDA

Hayden Herrera's engrossing biography chronicles Frida Kahlo's life, from her childhood during the Mexican Revolution and a devastating accident at eighteen that left her crippled and unable to bear children, to her tempestuous marriage to Diego Rivera, affairs with figures like Leon Trotsky and Isamu Noguchi, Communist Party involvement, and deep absorption in Mexican folklore.

Kahlo's self-portraits form an autobiography in paint, capturing her pain, emotions, and pursuit of self-awareness until her death at forty-seven.

The book portrays her as a flamboyant, anarchic artist who created a knowing public persona steeped in her native culture.