Book Club Questions for Outlawed What did you think about this alternate history take of the Wild West and the U.S. “Flowing around this person’s shoulders and down onto the ground below was a cape made entirely of flowers, yellow and orange and blue and purple, so large and complex that it must have taken many days and many hands to stitch it all together. Anna North has crafted a pulse-racing, page-turning saga about the search for hope in the wake of death, and for truth in a climate of small-mindedness and fear. Outlawed is an amazing speculative Western that really shakes up the Western genre by tackling the patriarchy, gender roles/identity, race, religion, fertility, and medicine in a unique way. “I saw a handsome, dark-skinned person dressed in a top hat and tails like the mayor of Fairchild wore on festival days,” Ada says at their first meeting.

“These VERY DANGEROUS CRIMINALS,” a wanted poster warns, “are known to harbor among them WITCHES and people of MIXED BREED, and to engage in UNNATURAL BEHAVIOR and DRESS.” They’re led by a magnetic figure called the Kid, who rejects male and female pronouns. Outlawed is an amazing speculative Western full of heart and feminism, tackling gender roles/identity, race, religion, and fertility in a fascinating way. by Anna North Critics Opinion: Readers Opinion: Not Yet Rated First Published: Jan 2021, 272 pages Paperback: Feb 2022, 272 pages Genres Rate this book Write a Review Book Reviewed by: Will Heath Buy This Book About this Book Summary Excerpt Reading Guide Excerpt Outlawed In the year of our Lord 1894, I became an outlaw. She finally falls in with the Hole in the Wall Gang, a kind of sapphic iteration of the Jesse James gang. Knowing this, Ada keeps running - pursued by a sheriff who will never give up. Ada has heard tales of criminal men shooting their way across the Badlands, but the real outlaws in this society are women who are unwilling or unable to be mothers.

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