How The West Was Lost in “Site Fidelity” – Chicago Review of Books

How The West Was Lost in “Site Fidelity” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] In her debut short story collection Site Fidelity, Claire Boyles has tapped into a largely untouched goldmine of stories about environmental issues in the American West, and the people involved in the often-lonely fights for their jobs, their land and their resources on a changing planet. By writing this book, Boyles provides a peek … Read more

A New Old West in “Outlawed” – Chicago Review of Books

A New Old West in “Outlawed” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] “In the year of our Lord 1894, I became an outlaw,” begins the scrappy young heroine of Outlawed, an epic new Western by Anna North. This postapocalyptic, alternate history reimagines the Wild West’s notorious Hole-in-the-Wall Gang as a posse of female and nonbinary robbers forced into a life of crime. Ada is a seventeen-year-old … Read more