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Frenchy Tonneau leaves her closeted home in the Bronx for the bars of New York City, the freedom of Provincetown, and the liberation of Greenwich Village in the 1960s and 1970s. Her hangouts, her women, her small yet universal world tell the stories of the times – and the stories of lesbians today. A timeless journey and a riveting read, The Swashbuckler is heart-wrenching, heartwarming, and unforgettable. No library descriptions found. |
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the rules around the butch/femme dynamic were modeled to look so much like heterosexual couples and patriarchal dynamics. it's strange how easily people fell into that. so i liked seeing that shift by the end. i think, also, that lynch tried to start a conversation about racism and privilege, and i'm so glad to see that. this isn't fantastically written (although it's not bad either), but she tackles a lot in it, and, i believe, moves past the books that came before this. there is good character growth and social growth that's pointed to as well, which is more than i got out of those earlier books.
"Mercedes didn't want to be butch, she didn't want Frenchy to be butch. Like Lydia and Doreatha, Mercedes wanted them to come together equally, somehow."
but even after all of it there is still the fear and uncertainty - "Frenchy thought: if they come for us tomorrow, we've had this, and we'll be stronger for it." so there's this reminder of how far we still had to come (and of course still do) even as the characters find happiness in the end. ( )