5/27/2023 0 Comments Passing strange by ellen klages![]() ![]() The bulk of Passing Strange is the love story between two women in a time when it was prohibited to love and be if you weren't cis het. The city of San Francisco itself takes on hints of a magical city, through the fair or the theme of looking like, dressing, and being, in a game of mirrors reflecting themselves with slight distortions, or in going behind the curtain.īut, as I said, if you come to Passing Strange for the fantasy, you may end up disappointed, because even if it's done beautifully, it is as light as a pastel colour. There's also a hint at mirror universes, and maybe our characters already are in a mirror universe. There's for instance, the ability to fold space as if an origami folding, though it may be, after all, science even if we don't have the science yet to explain how it happens. It is in passing but it is beautifully creative. ![]() Quite honestly, the fantasy aspect isn't in your face at all. ![]() "All right," will you tell me, "But where is the fantasy aspect in there?" The story soon takes us back to the 1940s where we find out that Helen was a friend of Haskell and of a small group of lesbians in San Francisco at a time when discriminatory laws still existed. The story begins as Helen Young, a dying old woman, goes to sell a famous artwork by Haskell, a mysterious artist from the 1940s who was well known in some specialised circles for creating covers for pulp genre magazines. ![]()
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