After Sappho

Selby Wynn Schwartz - After Sappho

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A novel that celebrates the women and trailblazers of the past ā€“ their constant efforts to push against the boundaries of what it means, and can mean, to be a woman .

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A poetic patchwork of fragments of literary history that together take shape as an intergenerational tale of the Lesbian family. An ancestry eruditely, playfully recovered’ BOOKER PRIZE JUDGES ā€˜Splendid!ā€™ Lucy Ellmann, author of Ducks, Newburyport An exhilarating debut from a radiant new voice,

After Sappho reimagines the intertwined lives of feminists at the turn of the twentieth century. Itā€™s 1895. Amid laundry and bruises, Rina Pierangeli Faccio gives birth to the child of the man who raped her ā€“ and who she has also been forced to marry. Unbroken, she determines to change her name; and her life, alongside it. 1902.

Romaine Brooks sails for Capri. She has barely enough money for the ferry, nothing for lunch; her paintbrushes are bald and clotted… But she is sure she can sell a painting ā€“ and is fervent in her belief that the island is detached from all fates she has previously suffered. …

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