Rob and Michelle read two modern westerns this month, told from a different perspective than traditional western stories.
In "Outlawed" by Anna North, Ada has to escape her home town when she's labeled a witch for being unable to conceive a child. She runs to a convent, and then to a gang of outlaws in Wyoming.
In "Upright Women Wanted" by Sarah Gailey, Esther is a stowaway in a Librarian's book wagon to escape her life after her best friend/sweetheart is killed. In this reinvented pulp western, you meet some brave librarians who are working against the newly fascist government in a speculative future dystopian America.
Outlawed on Libby and Overdrive
Upright Women Wanted in Branches
Upright Women Wanted on Libby and Overdrive
Upright Women Wanted on Hoopla
Music - Story has Begun (Kielokaz 156)by KieLoKazis licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.
