Passing Strange by Ellen Klages
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lightreadsPassing Strange
4/5. A novella about six queer women in 1940 San Francisco, falling in love and living their queer lives full of art and music, with magic lurking around the corners.
Lovely, full of history and many kinds of art and many kinds of queerness. This also has the trick of making you very conscious of the dangers these women were in, even as they patronize lesbian piano bars, without making you wallow in police brutality or tourist homophobia. And this is structured in a way I always appreciate, where many things get casually laid out, and none of them cohere until the very end, when you say "ah, the magic." I'm a predictive reader to a fault, and I don't often read something where I can just sit back and enjoy the journey.
4/5. A novella about six queer women in 1940 San Francisco, falling in love and living their queer lives full of art and music, with magic lurking around the corners.
Lovely, full of history and many kinds of art and many kinds of queerness. This also has the trick of making you very conscious of the dangers these women were in, even as they patronize lesbian piano bars, without making you wallow in police brutality or tourist homophobia. And this is structured in a way I always appreciate, where many things get casually laid out, and none of them cohere until the very end, when you say "ah, the magic." I'm a predictive reader to a fault, and I don't often read something where I can just sit back and enjoy the journey.