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After Sappho
by Selby Wynn Schwartz
Oh, this was wonderful! After Sappho is a novelization of the lives of various historical women, from Vita and Virginia to Colette and Josephine Baker, who all came, well, after Sappho. Artists, sapphics, writers, feminists. Not necessarily non-fiction, we get to glimpse into their lives and work in short vignettes, going back and forth in time to see how they fight for a better future for women, while also seeing how their lives might occasionally intertwine. Another reviewer called this hopeful and a novel of movement, and that's exactly what it is. The way it's written, in this unique, poetic, nearly short story-like way, works perfectly for what it's trying to do. It truly caught me by surprise because I don't think it's necessarily what I thought it would be when I bought it on a semi-sunny day back last autumn while going home after defending my MA thesis, but it managed to be so much more, so much better than I imagined. I highly recommend it!