Magdalena Westman
writer, blogger, art therapist

In her autobiography, Magdalena dedicates some chapters to her meetings with Frank Zappa. First, in 1991 in the Czech Republic during the Adieu C.A. campaign, where FZ's last public appearance was at a concert organized to mark the departure of Soviet troops. Magdalena is the sister of the famous Czech musician Michael Kocáb. Soon they both spent some time in the USA, and Magdalena stayed for a while at Frank Zappa's home in Laurel Canyon.

Magdalena Westman about herself:
I have spent most of my adult life as a housewife. In my first marriage (1979-1994) to the composer and adventurer Martin Kratochvíl, whose model of family strongly resonated with the old German idea of the role of a woman in it - "Kinder, Küche, Kirche" (children, kitchen, church), I suffered psychologically. Hladce obrace nahodit sejmout (Smoothly turn to throw off) discusses, among other things, my purposeful emancipation from a socially undervalued position. However, readers will not read anywhere that I returned to it after years freely and without torture. My second marriage to the South African sailor Randolph A. Westman (2006- ) is based on a much simpler basis – on the old English proverb "Happy Wife, Happy Life".

Excerpts about Zappa from the book are available with permission from Magdalena Westman.

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Hladce obrace nahodit sejmout in Facebook 
Šuplik bookstore and publishing house
Magdalena Westman homepage
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