![]() That status quo is pretty much OK with the heroine of Outlawed, a 17-year-old woman named Ada. And, because too much knowledge, especially medical knowledge of women's bodies, is frowned upon, "barren" women are regarded as freaks of nature, witches they're ostracized, imprisoned and sometimes put to death. ![]() One of the few things this fragmented America agrees on is that women are put on Earth to bear children. West of the Mississippi, centralized government has been replaced by a patchwork of Independent Towns. Outlawed opens in an alternative America of 1894 that was torn asunder by a flu epidemic some 60 years earlier. That's a glib tagline, but there's some justification for it. ![]() Talking to friends this past week, I've described Anna North's new novel, Outlawed, as The Handmaid's Tale meets Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. ![]()
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