jacobinreads 's review for:

After Sappho: A Novel by Selby Wynn Schwartz

3.75

adventurous emotional reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Interesting, a little experimental, and a large part of the second half concerned the life, literature, and loves of Virginia Woolf. Selby Wynn Schwartz's work takes the form of sort of prose-poem vignettes, and (as one might guess from the title), largely concerns the lives of women, and the women who love them, around the end of the 19th century, and the tumultuous beginning of the 20th.

I really ended up enjoying this, although it definitely rewards taking care and time to contemplate each little narrative. Like a pure chocolate, this was good, and a little bitter.