After Sappho is a gorgeously written series of vignettes that tell the stories of so many women - as artists, poets, writers, actresses, trailblazers - as lovers and friends and exes and muses. 

I'm genuinely in awe and will definitely buy a physical copy of this book to mark up and keep and cry over. 

Interspersed through these womens' stories are also historical codes and laws that oppressed women, sapphists, lesbians. There are case files from male psychologists and psychiatrists demeaning and demonizing women who prefer to be with other women. These are hard to read at times and feels so familiar even in 2023. 

But also in this fictionalized history, Sappho and sapphists before look on to tell these stories, using the personal "we" POV at times and letting us really feel the connection, how queer sapphists have always found each other and recognized each other. 

I cannot praise and love this book enough.

Thank you to NetGalley and W.W. Norton & Company for a free e-arc in exchange for a review.