![]() ![]() She is married to a lovely boy from a nice family. The year is 1895, and 17-year-old Ada has the perfect life in Fairchild, a conservative Christian town in the American West. Thus, North’s novel is both a literary adventure and a meaningful critique of our contemporary world. While the novel is set in the late 19th century, the issues North explores through her character development of Ada are the same issues that women and American society grapple with today. She flees her hometown and undergoes a journey of self-discovery that is wild and introspective. The novel is written in the first-person point of view of Ada, a teenager shunned by her community because of their superstitious attitudes towards women. It rewrites the myths of a male-dominated Wild West, legends that are intrinsic to American culture yet often lacking female figures. ![]() Outlawed is a hybrid of genres: It has elements of historical fiction, characterizations of American Western exploration literature, tropes of the bildungsroman, and promotes feminist literary themes. ![]()
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