Ada’s mother didn’t put much stock in dogma, or in the conventional belief that only females could be barren, but she knew that girls who fail to produce a healthy baby after more than six months of marriage are suspected of witchcraft. She was taught that God made a covenant with Mary of Texarkana that if the survivors of the Great Flu and their descendants are fruitful and multiply, they will be spared more illness. In a world where the United States of America has been wiped out by a “Great Flu” that leaves its survivors barren, Ada has grown up within a religion that reads something like Bible fan fiction. Being the daughter of a gifted midwife, she is adept at assisting with births and treating “female troubles.” This postapocalyptic, alternate history reimagines the Wild West’s notorious Hole-in-the-Wall Gang as a posse of female and nonbinary robbers forced into a life of crime.Īda is a seventeen-year-old married girl in a town in the Dakota territory. “In the year of our Lord 1894, I became an outlaw,” begins the scrappy young heroine of Outlawed, an epic new Western by Anna North.
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