Book of the Week. In her novel After Sappho, Selby Wynn Schwartz collages imagined vignettes of a multitude of actual mainly late-nineteenth and early twentieth-century women—famous, infamous and unfamous—whose lives were atypical, woman-focused, and often outright rebellious, into a kind of portrait of an animating force enabling outsiders to not only sustain their own existence but to effect change in society and culture. 
>>Read an extract. 
>>Skin and sinew and breath and longing. 
>>In praise of visionary women. 
>>Cramped destiny. 
>>Long-listed for the 2022 Booker Prize. 
>>Your copy.