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SPOILER ALERT!!!! For those of you who have not read, but are planning to read, Loving Frank, by Nancy Horan you might want to skip this blog. Actually, you might want to skip the book and just read the blog, but whatever.

If you don't know, Loving Frank is the fictionalized account of the love affair between Frank Lloyd Wright and one of his clients, Mamah Cheney. They left their spouses and children (him 6 and her 2). The book is a little Sex in the City circa Carrie moves to Paris meets The Feminine Mystique crossed with The Fountainhead. Some of the theories on feminism and individuality are interesting, but the books gets tedious with the hand wringing over her children and nothing really happening from a standpoint of the story moving forward.

I'm reading this for my book club so I'm sure they'll be a debate on her leaving her kids, and feminism (Cheney was a suffragist), but the really shocking part is that a servant of Mr. Wright and Ms. Cheney set fire to their Wisconsin home and attacked and with an ax killed Ms. Cheney and her two children who were visiting her for the summer. Four others were also murdered and two wounded. Mr. Wright was in Chicago at the time.

Holy Sh*t! How could I have not know this? Did you know?

Still Stunned,

--Kelly