{"product_id":"outlawed-9781474615365","title":"Outlawed","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"+1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eINSTANT \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eBESTSELLER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICK\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMAJOR TV ADAPTATION IN DEVELOPMENT BY AMY ADAMS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Calling it \u003ci\u003eThe Handmaid''s Tale\u003c\/i\u003e crossed with\u003ci\u003e Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid\u003c\/i\u003e goes some way to describe this novel''s memorable world, but it is also wholly its own'' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eKIRKUS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cfont size=\"+1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''2021 is already a year that could use a little joy. Here to provide some is \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eOutlawed\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e . . . It''s an absolute romp and contains basically everything I want in a book: witchy nuns, heists, a marriage of convenience, and a midwife trying to build a bomb out of horse dung''\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eVox\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cfont size=\"+1\"\u003e \u003cb\u003e''\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eOutlawed\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e sets a high bar for the 12 months of publishing still to come . . . It upends the tropes of the traditionally macho and heteronormative genre while also being a rip-snortin'' good read, too''\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eTHE WEEK (Most Anticipated Books of the Year) \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cfont size=\"+1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e''North is a riveting storyteller . . . Reader, you are in for a real treat'' \u003c\/b\u003eJENNY ZHANG\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cfont size=\"+1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Fans of Margaret Atwood and Cormac McCarthy finally get the Western they deserve'' \u003c\/b\u003eALEXIS COE\u003c\/font\u003e        \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cfont size=\"+1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e''A thrilling tale eerily familiar but utterly transformed ... In North''s galloping prose, it''s a fantastically cinematic adventure that turns the sexual politics of the Old West inside out''\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eWASHINGTON POST\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/font\u003e    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cfont size=\"+1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e''A western unlike any other, \u003ci\u003eOutlawed\u003c\/i\u003e features queer cowgirls, gender nonconforming robbers and a band of feminists that fight against the grain for autonomy, agency and the power to define their own worth''\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eMS.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cfont size=\"+1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e''A grand, unforgettable tale'' \u003c\/b\u003eESMÉ WEIJUN WANG \u003c\/font\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn the year of our Lord 1894, I became an outlaw.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn the day of her wedding-dance, Ada feels lucky. She loves her broad-shouldered, bashful husband and her job as an apprentice midwife.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut her luck will not last. It is every woman''s duty to have a child, to replace those that were lost in the Great Flu. And after a year of marriage and no pregnancy, in a town where barren women are hanged as witches, Ada''s survival depends on leaving behind everything she knows.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe joins up with the notorious Hole in the Wall Gang. Its leader, a charismatic preacher-turned-robber, known to all as The Kid, wants to create a safe haven for women outcast from society. But to make this dream a reality, the Gang hatches a treacherous plan. And Ada must decide whether she''s willing to risk her life for the possibility of a new kind of future for them all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnna North has written a captivating Western unlike any other, with unique rhythms, dusty lands, and characters like new friends brought in on high winds. A grand, unforgettable tale.\u003c\/b\u003e -- Esmé Wang, author of THE COLLECTED SCHIZOPHRENIAS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eI'm dazzled by this feminist Western about a world in which women's worth and right to live are determined by the vagaries of fertility. Set in an alternate past, one all too similar to our today, \u003ci\u003eOutlawed\u003c\/i\u003e is terrifying, wise, tender, and thrilling. A masterpiece.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eOutlawed\u003c\/i\u003e flips the script on the beloved Western genre and gives us the iconic heroine-on-the-run we deserve. Anna North is a riveting storyteller ... Reader, you are in for a real treat!\u003c\/b\u003e -- Jenny Zhang, author of SOUR HEART\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFans of Margaret Atwood and Cormac McCarthy finally get the Western they deserve in \u003ci\u003eOUTLAWED\u003c\/i\u003e, but Anna North doesn't just reimagine a damsel-in-distress as her own savior. She plays with the promise and danger of the frontier, introducing us to an America we never knew-and one we know all too well\u003c\/b\u003e -- Alexis Coe, author of YOU NEVER FORGET YOUR FIRST and ALICE+FREDA FOREVER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA moving and invigorating complication of the Western, highlighting chosen family, love, and survival among outcasts in another American timeline. As she mines the genre for vital new stories, North beautifully shines a light on our real past and conveys a warning for the future.\u003c\/b\u003e -- Lydia Kiesling, author of THE GOLDEN STATE\u003cbr\u003eThis \u003cb\u003eabsorbing feminist western\u003c\/b\u003e plucks the greatest conceits of the genre - the tension between individual freedom and society, the romance of the Old West marred by its inherent violence - and turns them on their heads . . . Anna North skewers the machismo traditionally championed by outlaws, and gives us instead resilient women who dress, rob and kill as men, but have all the burdens and forbearance of rejected women . . . written with careful prose that lingers lovingly on the details of convalescence, and luxuriating in its surroundings: the jackrabbits that hide behind jagged rocks, the smell of sage in Powder country . . . \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eOutlawed \u003c\/i\u003eshares concerns with \u003ci\u003eThe Handmaid's Tale\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Crucible\u003c\/i\u003e, but is distinctly itself \u003c\/b\u003e. .  This is first a moving examination of how the marginalised find friendship in an indifferent world and only second, a western. 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