I have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by. I want to swim in the river. I want to feel the current.
So writes Mamah Borthwick Cheney
in her diary as she struggles to justify her clandestine love affair
with Frank Lloyd Wright. Four years earlier, in 1903, Mamah and her
husband, Edwin, had commissioned the renowned architect to design a new
home for them. During the construction of the house, a powerful
attraction developed between Mamah and Frank, and in time the lovers,
each married with children, embarked on a course that would shock
Chicago society and forever change their lives.
In this ambitious debut novel,
fact and fiction blend together brilliantly. While scholars have largely
relegated Mamah to a footnote in the life of America’s greatest
architect, author Nancy Horan gives full weight to their dramatic love
story and illuminates Cheney’s profound influence on Wright.
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