Frida in America

The Creative Awakening of a Great Artist

By: Celia Stahr

Narrated by: Frankie Corzo

The riveting story of how three years spent in the United States transformed Frida Kahlo into the artist we know today

Mexican artist Frida Kahlo adored adventure. In November, 1930, she was thrilled to realize her dream of traveling to the United States to live in San Francisco, Detroit, and New York. Still, leaving her family and her country for the first time was monumental.

Only 23 and newly married to the already world-famous 43-year-old Diego Rivera, she was at a crossroads in her life and this new place, one filled with magnificent beauty, horrific poverty, racial tension, anti-Semitism, ethnic diversity, bland Midwestern food, and a thriving music scene, pushed Frida in unexpected directions. Shifts in her style of painting began to appear, cracks in her marriage widened, and tragedy struck, twice while she was living in Detroit.

Frida in America is the first in-depth biography of these formative years spent in Gringolandia, a place Frida couldn’t always understand. But it’s precisely her feelings of being a stranger in a strange land that fueled her creative passions and an even stronger sense of Mexican identity. With vivid detail, Frida in America recreates the pivotal journey that made Senora Rivera the world famous Frida Kahlo.

©2020 by Celia Stahr. (P)2020 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

Critic reviews

"Listeners experience the disorientation and dismissal that Kahlo encountered in a personal way due to [Frankie] Corzo's evocative delivery. Listeners who want to learn more about Kahlo will sink into these two volumes, which explore a remarkable life as told by a strong voice." —AudioFile Magazine

The explanation of her details in her paintings , I enjoyed it very much!

Ending my enjoyment of being entertained listening. I bought the hard cover copy , looking forward to receiving it.

Awesome!

This was a powerful story, with some elements that I had heard before, but in a context that I wasn’t ever exposed to as an art historian. What a fantastic work for anyone that’s interested in learning about Frida, or the struggles of people during that time in history.

Reader can’t pronounce Spanish words correctly

I can’t stand that the reader can’t say cachuchas! Uh! She is not a Mexican Spanish speaker and often gets it wrong. Don’t know why that bothers me so much

Absolutely Addicting

This is a powerhouse of a book about a powerhouse of a woman. As an artist myself, I found this so inspiring having already been such a Frida fan since adolescence. I loved all 15 hours. If you love her work, do yourself a favor and give this a listen.

Great storytelling- historical

I loved everything about this book and the audio - except!!!!! Please re-record the word 'Rouge' as in the Ford River Rouge Plant. It's NOT Row-g, it's Roo-j - like rouge you wear on your cheeks.