In his trademark style, Boyle uses a fictional narrator to tell the story of an American original: Frank Lloyd Wright, the flamboyant genius of 20th-century architecture. The tale unfolds through the experiences of four women who loved Wright: the Montenegrin beauty Olgivanna Milanoff, the passionate Maude Miriam Noel, the spirited Mamah Borthwick Cheney, and Wright’s devoted first wife, Catherine “Kitty” Tobin.