Possible Lesbian #3, or Miggin.actually, let me put it in the words of Jinx (ellipses in original): And it didn't seem weird and strange, it didn't seem like a crush, it seemed like two friends who are so close, who love each other so much, they're.they're like sisters (216). Jinx is madly in love with Lexie but isn't sure what that means for her sexuality (or anything else), which is perfectly reasonable except that she doesn't care that Lexie is crazy. Lexie, Possible Lesbian #1, is bona fide crazy even Jinx (Possible Lesbian #2) admits it. Ditto anything that happened in the 1960s. The boarding school is, alas, decidedly backdrop, despite how much of the action happens on campus. If this book hadn't been published well before my birth, I would say that it was written with me in mind: boarding school! Possible lesbians! 1960s historical fiction! It's a freaking trifecta book*, which are about as rare as unicorns.īut, well.
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Megan Bell, Underground Books, Carrollton, GAĪn NPR and Kirkus Review Best Book of 2017, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and a Washington Post Notable Work of Fiction. I found myself entranced by the people populating this novel’s backwoods Victorian Essex and busy, gloomy London and the clashes they have at the borders of faith and reason, love and social justice.” “Sarah Perry’s Essex Serpent is as intricate, sublime, deep, dark, and mysterious as its titular character. Tina Ontiveros (W), Klindt's Booksellers, The Dalles, OR Summer 2018 Reading Group Indie Next List With beautiful sentences and characters and landscapes so well-crafted you feel you've been there, The Essex Serpent captures the imagination and manages to deliver the sense of wisdom only good literature can.” The real miracle of Sarah Perry is that she manages to do so with a completely fresh voice. 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