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Prairie Style Romance

Though Nancy Horan takes great liberty in imagining intimate scenes between Frank Lloyd Wright and Mamah Borthwick Cheney—of which there is no evidence—Loving Frank ultimately rests on historical record

By Achy Obejas

If Nancy Horan had presented the ending of her novel, Loving Frank (Ballantine), in a workshop, or if perhaps she’d stricken the historical names and pawned this as pure invention, it would have likely been considered an excellent example of deus ex machina. “Oh, please,” the reader would say. “You’re going to create these fascinating, complex characters, fill reams with exquisite… return to article

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