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Jul 13, 2013
I Had to persevere with this book, enjoying the exotic settings and BK's typically beautiful writing, but finding the first part of the story didn't completely draw me in. However I'm so glad I continued! I learnt so much about Mexico, Frieda Kahlo, Trotsky and American history in the first half of the twentieth century; but mostly grew to love Harrison Shepherd and Violet Brown. I was deeply impacted by the tragedy of it. How Human freedom and integrity and beauty can be so easily destroyed by the machinery of state.