Sora Benedetta ha recensito Outlawed di Anna North
Feminism, Western, and midwives
4 stelle
Already these ingredients can make quite a promising book, and it delivers quite well.
The main merit of the book imho is for having thought of such a story and put it to words: with the geography of Southwest USA shattered by the mysterious Flu, a group of female cow-persons led by The Kid does outlaw stuff and has a grand plan. The protagonist, a midwife, finds herself barren, flees from her town and has a dream: to know WHY women can be barren, have miscarriages and deliver children with malformations, a quest for knowledge. These elements put together, in a genre male-dominated in pop culture, deliver an original and entertaining story, empowering even in the way the characters play with gender and masks, until it doesn't matter anymore. To be honest, gender never matters at all, until you don't enter a town, the "civilized" space.
It's a very good …
Already these ingredients can make quite a promising book, and it delivers quite well.
The main merit of the book imho is for having thought of such a story and put it to words: with the geography of Southwest USA shattered by the mysterious Flu, a group of female cow-persons led by The Kid does outlaw stuff and has a grand plan. The protagonist, a midwife, finds herself barren, flees from her town and has a dream: to know WHY women can be barren, have miscarriages and deliver children with malformations, a quest for knowledge. These elements put together, in a genre male-dominated in pop culture, deliver an original and entertaining story, empowering even in the way the characters play with gender and masks, until it doesn't matter anymore. To be honest, gender never matters at all, until you don't enter a town, the "civilized" space.
It's a very good novel, clear, well written and comprehensible, which could even be a movie, or at least an average western novel, if only people would still read.