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charge, while stocks last subject to availability. Welcome back to Vox Conversations. I'm Sean

Ramas from Today on the show Vox's book Critic Constance Grady is going to talk with another

Voxer and a North all about her new book outlawed. It's a conversation all about creating an alternative

history, reimagining the Western and having fun with the usually fraught roles around

gender and identity. Here's Constance. Ananorth is a reporter on Vox's identity team. She is also

the author of Outlawed, which is a new novel that's been selected by Reese Witherspoon's

Book Club and option 4 TV by Amy Adams's production company. Outlawed deals with some intense

ideas, but it's also just a really fun book to read. It's a Western about a group of gender

non-conforming outlaws and the safe haven they build for themselves at the legendary Hole

in the Wall camp. The characters in the book are outlaws because of what makes them different.

Their gender identity, their ability to bear children, their race, their class, but at the

Hole in the Wall, these differences stop being something that limits their world. Instead

of being restrictive reminders of the way the rest of the country wants them to be, their

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