"Maso\'s incantatory description of her conjured-up subject\'s embrace takes on extraordinary power .
Pierced through by a steel handrail and broken in many places, she entered a long period of convalescence during which she began to paint self-portraits..
Like Frida Kahlo\'s painting--impossible to look away from." --Kai Maristed, Los Angeles Times At the age of eighteen, Frida Kahlo\'s life was transformed when the bus in which she was riding was hit by a trolley car. . . "Maso\'s incantatory description of her conjured-up subject\'s embrace takes on extraordinary power