![]() At one point he admits to Kahlo that he is “a mouse creeping around the shoes of giant people, trying not to get stepped on”.Īfter Trotsky’s murder in 1940, Shepherd begins a new life in North Carolina, where he puts his masterly talents of observation to good use by writing novels. The only stumbling block is that the larger-than-life Kahlo and Trotsky, with his love of animals and hopes for a world cleansed of evil, are more enthralling than Shepherd. Weaving the stories of real-life characters into a work of fiction is fraught with difficulty but Kingsolver, with her meticulous research and keen eye for historical detail, succeeds magnificently. Kingsolver has admitted that she originally imagined the novel without Frida Kahlo but that “she moved into it”. ![]() ![]() ![]() By becoming part of their extraordinary circle and acting as their cook and secretary, Shepherd inadvertently throws in his lot with art and revolution – a move which is to have devastating repercussions. ![]()
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