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Sep 10, 2014WVMLStaffPicks rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
A tour de force that takes the reader from the artistic worlds of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera to America during the McCarthy trials. Harrison Shepherd's young life is a series of misadventures until he finally manages to ingratiate himself into Rivera's studio as a plaster mixer for the artist's murals. The Rivera household soon becomes a haven for the exiled Lev Trotsky. With Trotsky’s assassination, Harrison is forced to flee the country; when the Americans uncover his Communist background, he again finds himself on dangerous ground. A provocative, insightful, fascinating and epic journey.