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thegothiclibrary 's review for:
Passing Strange
by Ellen Klages
I knew nothing about this book going in, so everything about it was a pleasant surprise.
The book opens with an elderly woman embarking on a last quest before she dies: selling the final painting by the mysterious painter of weird fiction pulp magazine covers, Haskel. The novel then flashes back to Haskel's story. Set with the lesbian community of 1930s San Fransisco, Passing Strange is a love story sprinkled with small touches of magic. I don't know if I would go so far as to call this book fantasy--for the most part it is truly immersive historical fiction. Then one of the characters will do something surprising and impossible. But sometimes you need a little magic if you want to give a happy ending to people that historically the world has not been kind to.
The book opens with an elderly woman embarking on a last quest before she dies: selling the final painting by the mysterious painter of weird fiction pulp magazine covers, Haskel. The novel then flashes back to Haskel's story. Set with the lesbian community of 1930s San Fransisco, Passing Strange is a love story sprinkled with small touches of magic. I don't know if I would go so far as to call this book fantasy--for the most part it is truly immersive historical fiction. Then one of the characters will do something surprising and impossible. But sometimes you need a little magic if you want to give a happy ending to people that historically the world has not been kind to.