


Instead of tackling magic this time around, Gailey has populated their novella with forces we know all too well in the real world: homophobia, transphobia, misogyny, patriarchy, fascism, perpetual war, and the fraught, post-truth minefield we find ourselves navigating today. But their new work, Upright Women Wanted, doesn't deal in fantasy at all. In Sarah Gailey's last novel, Magic for Liars, the author entirely upended the threadbare fantasy tropes of chosen ones and wizardry schools.

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