Upright Women Wanted

Name: Upright Women Wanted
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Sarah Gailey
ISBN: 9781541439443

Author: Sarah Gailey

Narrator: Romy Nordlinger

Unabridged: 3 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 02/04/2020

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction, Action & Adventure

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.

About Sarah Gailey

Hugo and Campbell Award finalist Sarah Gailey came onto the scene in 2015 and has since become one of the sharpest, funniest voices in pop culture online. She is a regular contributor for multiple websites, including Tor.com. Her nonfiction has appeared in Mashable and the Boston Globe, and her fiction has been published internationally. She lives in Oakland, California.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Emily (emilykatereads)

Dec 2019: “be gay, do crimes, circulate books” is tor pandering to me April 2020: This is a short story that packs a punch. Gailey introduces us into this western world that is in a near-future America. The librarians operate to bring Approved Materials to different outposts, but they have other goals.......more

Goodreads review by Elle

“When there’s people around who we don’t trust, we let them think we’re the kinds of people who are allowed to exist.” Upright Women Wanted follows lead character Esther Augustus, daughter of a major ruler, as she runs away to join traveling librarians Bet, Leda, and Cye. In a post-apocal......more

Goodreads review by s.penkevich

Fight the State. Be a Librarian. I was immediately intrigued when I saw this on the back cover of Sarah Gailey’s lovely little novella, Upright Women Wanted, particularly as I myself work in a library. A quick glance told me that not only was this about librarians, but gay librarians fighting fascism......more