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Schwartz’s narrator speaks in the choral “we”, and like a daisy chain, they connect all these women’s shared yet individual experiences of feeling closed in, being violated, feeling misunderstood by society, until they all shed their names and managed to “escap[e] the century”.

Selby Wynn Schwartz's 'After Sappho,' a fictionalized, kaleidoscopic of glamorous early feminists, turns staid narratives on their heads.

Selby Wynn Schwartz's brilliant novel riffs off Virginia Woolf’s Orlando through vignettes about the lives of early 20th-century women