I picked this book up because of my interest in Frank Lloyd Wright, but I kept reading it because of Horan's amazing depiction of Mamah Borthwick Cheney as its central character. The book starts off as just another kind of standard narrative, but the more Mamah's character is developed, the more I felt that Horan was providing an incredible service to us as readers. In addition to providing back-drop for Wright's arrogant personality, the book's focus on Mamah suggests that the small women of history, the ordinary women, the "we" of history, are all women whose stories are worth telling. Of particular interest to me was learning more about the women's suffrage movement in the US and Europe as Mamah was involved with it and, indeed, struggling to lead her life in conjunction with her beliefs in it. This is a book that has grown on me more and more after I have finished it and thought about what Horan has given to us and what the act of that giving says about what is important in history and in us.