I have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by. I want to swim in the river. I want to feel the current.
So writes Mamah Borthwick Cheney in her diary as she struggles to justify her clandestine love affair with Frank Lloyd Wright. Mamah, a learned, lovely woman, scandalized Chicago when she left her husband and two young children to flee to Europe with Wright — who left behind a wife and six children of his own. The two fell in love in 1907, while Wright was building a “prairie house” for Mamah and and her husband in Oak Park.Loving Frank even has its own website: http://www.randomhouse.com/rhpg/lovingfrank/ with oodles of info and, my favourite, a letter to librarians!
Read a review from the New York Times and a review from The independent
Book browse has some book club questions, as does Lit lovers
You can read more about Frank Lloyd Wright on Wikipedia (though I must say from his photo that he doesn't quite look like a man you'd run off with!)
There have been a few probs with folks getting hold of the book so let us know if you need a hand.
Where will we meet? 6.30 at Lamaro's, 273 Cecil Street, South Melbourne
Firstly, you might want to check if a reading group guide is available. Publishers frequently have them on their websites, though there are other sources online. Otherwise, the following general questions work for just about any novel, and they can give you a good starting point for discussion:
The ultimate novel for disaffected youth. The story is told by Holden Caulfield, a seventeen- year-old dropout who has just been kicked out of his fourth school. An exploration of teenage alienation. For 20 years it was the most censored book in American schools and libraries. Surprisingly enough, none of us have read this cult classic!
Jade has nominated that we read 'something by Charles Dickens', the Victorian author and social campaigner. His novels were largely written in serial form for magazines and newspapers. He is known for his strong social conscience and deft comic touch. There are heaps of dramatisations we can watch in conjunction to our reading. Any suggestions for titles?
At a suburban barbecue, a man slaps a child who is not his own. This event has a shocking ricochet effect on a group of people, mostly friends, who are directly or indirectly influenced by the event. In its clear-eyed and forensic dissection of the ever-growing middle class and its aspirations and fears, The slap is also a poignant, provocative novel about the nature of loyalty and happiness. Winner of the 
Posts
