6 books
Hayden Herrera
Herrera published this in 1983, when Kahlo was still mostly filed as Diego Rivera’s wife, and it’s the book that ended that. She goes back to the blue house in Coyoacán where Frida was born, the polio at six, and…
Pablo Ortiz Monasterio
When Kahlo died in 1954, Rivera turned the Blue House into a museum but had the rest of her things — clothes, letters, documents, and more than 6,000 photographs — locked in the bathrooms and sealed. They stayed shut for…
Fernanda Melchor
The body of the Witch is found in an irrigation canal outside a Mexican village called La Matosa, and the novel works outward from there through five people connected to the killing — a teenage girl, a boy, a mother,…
Oliver Sacks
Sacks was a lifelong fern obsessive, and in 2000 he went to Oaxaca with the American Fern Society — a busload of amateur botanists, a few professionals, and him with a notebook. So the book is ferns, but it’s also…
Frida Kahlo
The last ten years of her life in her own hand — a facsimile of the journal she kept from about 1944, reproduced in full color, so you get the actual pages: Watercolor and ink drawings, blots she turned into…
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Noir set in 1943 in a small mountain town in Veracruz. Ulises is a con man who works through the mail and marries lonely women for their money. His current mark is Perla, a spinster who owns a boardinghouse —…
