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TC Boyle's new book, The Women, traces Frank Lloyd Wright's life in an innovative way: through the story of his many wives and mistresses. The tale is told from the point of view of (imaginary) architectural apprentice Tadashi Sato, who's editing the insertions of his granddaughter's husband, Seamus O'Flaherty. It's a complex construct, but the book still reads smoothly. Most interruptions come in the form of outbursts from Miriam, Wright's morphine-addicted second wife, but Tadashi's footnotes to O'Flaherty's tale provide amusing anecdotes as well. more ›