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A review by karrama
Outlawed by Anna North
4.0
Ada takes a step to the right of history in this alternate historical fiction novel. In an American expansion past, the people in isolated, but not entirely disconnected, towns value children. Every woman who bears a child is embraced by society, and those who society identifies as women but don't bear children are shunned or worse.
Ada married at 17. As the daughter of a midwife and daughter in law to a very interested mother in law, she had a lot of help getting pregnant. When she was still barren, she was asked to leave the house and her wedding ring and return home. Rather than be accused of witchcraft upon a friend losing her child, Ada heads for a convent and later to the Hole in the Wall and the Kid's gang.
The Kid accepted Ada, and she became one of the outlaws, doing all the outlaw things. The story doesn't end where you would expect, but ends exactly where the story's beginning promises. She became an outlaw.
Ada married at 17. As the daughter of a midwife and daughter in law to a very interested mother in law, she had a lot of help getting pregnant. When she was still barren, she was asked to leave the house and her wedding ring and return home. Rather than be accused of witchcraft upon a friend losing her child, Ada heads for a convent and later to the Hole in the Wall and the Kid's gang.
The Kid accepted Ada, and she became one of the outlaws, doing all the outlaw things. The story doesn't end where you would expect, but ends exactly where the story's beginning promises. She became an outlaw.