![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her parents’ friends included such literary and artistic heavyweights as artist Max Ernst, writers Edmund Wilson and Mary McCarthy, architect Marcel Breuer, and collector Peggy Guggenheim. These adults inhabited a world that Herrera’s mother called “upper bohemia,” a milieu of people born to privilege who chose to focus on the life of the mind. They saw their father only during summers on the Cape, when they and the other neighborhood children would be left to their own devices by parents who were busy painting, writing, or composing music. When Herrera was only three years old, her parents separated. UPPER BOHEMIA peels back the layers of a seemingly idyllic, artistic childhood in to explore the complexities of living with unstable, narcissistic parents.įor Herrera’s parents, both painters, following their artistic inclinations was more important than looking after their children. Herrera is a critically acclaimed biographer, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and now turns her biographer’s eye to her own family. Set against a backdrop of 1950s Cape Cod, New York City, and Mexico, Herrera’s poignant memoir is the perfect summer read. ![]()
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