A review by juushika
Patience & Sarah by Isabel Miller

5.0

Two women dream of escaping their Puritan community to homestead together out west. This is vibrant and joyful; the language is lovely, with flexible, ardent metaphors and transparent pathos. If some later events are more mundane and focus on (mis)communication, they only serve to explore the relationship's maturation and interactions with the public sphere. The historical setting is evocative, the romance complicated and sincere; it doesn't even feel self-published except that's about lesbian women. I believe that on rare occasion an author than exceed their native talent--can exceed, honestly, any reasonable expectation from a story. This does that. It's difficult to express my feelings about this book without sounding hyperbolic, but Patience & Sarah is emotive, invaluable, and quietly transcendent; and I loved it in every word.