Outlawed is a Western fiction by Anna North.
The writer grown up in Los Angeles and lives in Brooklyn. She was a graduate of Iowa Writer’s Workshop.
Ada is the protagonist in this book. The story is set in the late of nineteenth century.
From the front jacket of this book, “In the year of our Lord 1894, I became an outlaw. Like a lot of things, it didn’t happen all at once.”
The story begins when Ada feels lucky to get married with a handsome boy from the good family.
Ada’s mother is a midwife and Ada always happy to help her mother doing her job.
Like other her peers, she married at seventeen, and she loves her husband.
Their duty is to have children for baby Jesus since God sent the Great Flu (flu pandemic) to cleanse the world of evil.
Several months after they wed, Ada’s womb is still empty. Meanwhile in her town, the barren women are routinely hanged as witches.
# To be continued to Part 2
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