The Women

I loved this! It went by really fast for me. It was told from the point of view of a Japanese apprentice that Mr. Wright had working under him and living with him at Taliesin. You were really taken through the heartbreak and pain of the women he wa involved with more than him, but I thought that made the book what it is.

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Since I became obsessed with FLW and Mamah Borthwick from Loving Frank, I feel like this is a must-read.

A beautifully written piece with a very unique backward storytelling structure. I wish that these women weren’t frozen forever in history next to Frank Lloyd Wright. The book makes it seem that their only worth was because he saw them and wanted them. Tragic.

A terrific historical novel about the women in the life of Frank Lloyd Wright, who may have been a brilliant architect but was cruelly selfish as a husband and father, and hence, had a series of wives, none of whom could remain happy for very long given his demands for emotional attention and even physical labor.

Told in reverse chronolgical order, with Frank's relationship with his last (and very much younger) wife first, there is much that is heartbreaking in this book, and I read with ongoing astonishment at the risks Wright took in his own career in taking up with mistresses while still married, at a time when such actions remained highly scandalous. An outstanding read.