Emily Rapp Black is the author of Poster Child- A Memoir and The Still Point of the Turning World, a New York Times bestseller and an Editors' Pick. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including Vogue; The New York Times; Time; The Wall Street Journal; O, The Oprah Magazine; and the Los Angeles Times. She is a regular contributor to The New York Times Book Review and is the nonfiction editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books. Rapp is currently an associate professor of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside, where she also teaches medical narratives in the university's School of Medicine.
“This book is a wild masterpiece. It is about everything that
matters: mortality, motherhood, desire, love, the body, art,
writing, survival. Remarkably, the author is able to express the
chaos of grief and anger without ever losing control. The fire of
Frida Kahlo’s spirit courses through this book and twins with the
author’s own attempts to understand her life, and survive. It is
brilliant, furious, funny, gorgeously written, terribly sad and,
without being sentimental, hopeful. I am sure that any feeling
being will love and treasure this generous, remarkable book.”
—Matthew Zapruder, author of Why Poetry and Father’s
Day
“With endless intellect and intimacy, Emily Rapp Black brings us a
book without parallel, a book that will become well-worn by readers
who have passed it on, saying, here, you have to read
this. In Frida Kahlo and My Left Leg, Rapp Black
scours and thinks and confides not in order to write an impossibly
original work of art, though she has, but to survive all that has
threatened her body and soul. Is it peculiar, then, to say that
Frida Kahlo is one of the great loves of her life? For this is the
story, and this is the bond between two artists in whom there is no
hiding, just expressive, salvific brilliance. Read this. This
book might just get you through.” —Katie Ford, poet and author
of If You Have to Go and Blood Lyrics
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