Short Synopsis
In Upright Women Wanted, award-winning author Sarah Gailey reinvents the pulp Western with an explicitly antifascist, near-future story of queer identity.

Full Synopsis
In Upright Women Wanted, award-winning author Sarah Gailey reinvents the pulp Western with an explicitly antifascist, near-future story of queer identity.

"That girl's got more wrong notions than a barn owl's got mean looks."

Esther is a stowaway. She's hidden herself away in the Librarian's book wagon in an attempt to escape the marriage her father has arranged for her—a marriage to the man who was previously engaged to her best friend. Her best friend who she was in love with. Her best friend who was just executed for possession of resistance propaganda.

The future American Southwest is full of bandits, fascists, and queer librarian spies on horseback trying to do the right thing.

"Nordlinger matches Gailey zinger for zinger while creating a smooth series of arcs that
rely on an omniscient narrator who can see events and clarify the intentions from the various
viewpoints of ingenue Esther, surly Cye, and the fairy-grandma Head Librarian and her partner." ---Booklist Audio