After a slow introduction, where we are introduced to one of FLW's apprentices, Tadashi, (he is the narrator of the whole book—a wierd choice?) the story picks up and I started getting into FLW's tempetuous—or no, problem-ridden—love life. "Scandalous" back then. I liked reading about Maude Miriam: she was nuts, a morphine addict. (I'm assuming all this is true because TC Boyle based it on FLW's autobiography and other bios.) I'm a little disappointed that there was hardly any of the book devoted to his first wife Kitty, with whom he had six or so kids. The book just calls her "dull," but he was with her for 20 years before he left her...Nothing..?