The Incantation of Frida K Author:Kate Braverman "I was born in rain and I will die in rain." Thus begins Kate Braverman's luminous critically acclaimed novel The Incantation of Frida K., an imagined life journey of Frida Kahlo. The book opens and closes inside the mind of its subject on her deathbed, taking the reader through a kaleidoscope of memories and hallucinations. In a series of power... more »ful scenes, she interacts with her mother, sister, Diego Rivera, and her nurse. Frida K.'s voyage is an inward one, a last incantation before dying rendered in the evocative prose of one of America's most renowned poets.« less