The Promised Party: Kahlo, Basquiat and Me by Jennifer Clement games Mae loved science and was

Mae loved science and was so bright that she started college at just 16

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The Promised Party: Kahlo, Basquiat and Me by Jennifer Clement games Mae loved science and was'Clement has lived a life like no other, and made of it a shimmering mosaic, a masterpiece, which is this book' Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Less Growing up in 1970s Mexico City, Jennifer Clement lived next door to Frida Kahlo's house. It was a bohemian childhood, living alongside artists, communists, revolutionaries and poets, which allowed an awakening of creative freedom and curiosity about the world. Leaving behind Latin