![]() ![]() Namely, two young women in historical Jewish Eastern Europe are in love, until one of them leaves to marry a man. The initial premise stems from a trope some people may find painful, but is all too realistic thanks to the way society overwhelmingly pressures cis women to marry cis men. If I’m wrong, I’d love to know about more! In any case, it was a pleasure to read–sarcastic, sardonic, hopeful, enthusiastic, both a love story to our culture and a sharp criticism of some of its more tiresome features. In other words, it may very well be the first great piece of sapphic Jewish fantasy. Ellen Galford’s The Dyke and the Dybbuk is, for only being eighteen years old, fairly iconic and hallowed in the tiny subgenre in which I spend most of my writing time. ![]() Review originally appeared in The Lesbrary. ![]()
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