![]() ![]() ![]() Hailed for its feminist canvas, North has written a Wild West where the rules of society heavily regulate women’s bodies-and shame the enigmatic runaways who try to build better and more inclusive lives.Ĭurrently a senior reporter at Vox, North has previously written for the New York Times, Salon, BuzzFeed, and Jezebel. Outlawed has been praised for its subversiveness, bending familiar tropes around gender, the West, and familial structures. After a brief tenure as a nun, she joins a band of gender nonconforming outlaws known as the Hole in the Wall Gang, led by a nonbinary outlaw styled as “the Kid.” As she adjusts to her role as an outlaw, she finds herself propelled by a self-imposed mission to understand the science behind infertility. She marries at seventeen, but when she fails to become pregnant, the strict fertility laws that govern her society herald her as a witch. ![]() Set in an alternative Old West, the novel follows Ada, a young and precocious midwife. Like a lot of things, it didn’t happen all at once.” So begins Outlawed, Anna North’s latest novel. “In the year of our Lord 1894, I became an outlaw. ![]()
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