OUTLAWED – ANNA NORTH

In the year of our Lord 1894, I became an outlaw. On the day of her wedding-dance, Ada feels lucky. She loves her broad-shouldered, bashful husband and her job as an apprentice midwife. But 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. She 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. North is a riveting storyteller . . . Reader, you are in for a real treat JENNY ZHANG Fans of Margaret Atwood and Cormac McCarthy finally get the Western they deserve ALEXIS COE North s knockout latest chronicles the travails of a midwife s daughter who joins a group of female and nonbinary outlaws near the end of the 19th century . . . Impossible to put down PUBLISHER S WEEKLY Calling it The Handmaid s Tale crossed with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid goes some way to describe this novel s memorable world, but it is also wholly its own KIRKUS A grand, unforgettable tale ESME WEIJUN WANG