The Promised Party: Read an exclusive excerpt from a chapter on Frida Kahlo

A friend of the family, author Jennifer Clement was often in the house where Kahlo once lived. An excerpt from the chapter What Was Given.

Frida Kahlo liked to rest in bathtubs. At any lunch or dinner party, and after a few glasses of tequila, even though she preferred whisky, if possible, she’d go in search of the bathroom. Once there, she’d step into the waterless tub fully dressed in layers of skirts and petticoats and with her shoes on. Frida would sink down, as if the bathtub were a hospital bed or as if she were a mermaid in search of the sea, and