Frida Kahlo

The bus driver tried to pass the streetcar. The collision impaled an eighteen-year-old medical student through the pelvis with an iron handrail.

Frida Kahlo survived. Then she taught herself to paint from her bed, married the most famous muralist in Mexico twice, had an affair with Trotsky, and became more internationally recognized than any of them.

This is not a story about suffering made beautiful. This is about:

• A teenager rebuilt by thirty-two surgeries who turned her shattered spine into the subject of paintings Europe's Surrealists couldn't stop buying
• The volatile double marriage to Diego Rivera - a man who weighed 300 pounds, slept with her sister, and still called her the greatest painter in Mexico
• Why Stalin's assassins were hunting in her garden, and what she did when Trotsky started writing her love letters
• The moment a Louvre acquisition made her the first Mexican artist they ever purchased, while her leg was rotting from gangrene

No romance. No sanitizing. Just what actually happened between the accident and the Blue House funeral.

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