After Sappho

A fictional, collective retelling of the lives of women who reached toward freedom and art in the decades around 1900, all haunted by the ancient poet Sappho. From Sappho's fragments to Lina Poletti, Romaine Brooks, Virginia Woolf, Isadora Duncan, Radclyffe Hall and many others, the book follows women who refused the roles assigned to them, found one another, and wrote, danced, acted and loved in defiance. Told in an inventive first-person-plural voice, it is a playful and luminous novel about desire, community and reinvention.