Literary Fiction

Extasia

by Claire Legrand

In a fundamentalist 16th-century community, a girl begins to question the rigid doctrine as witchcraft accusations spread and sapphic desire awakens. Legrand crafts a fierce feminist reckoning with religious oppression and female autonomy.

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