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Also by Sarah Gailey:

Make Me Better, May 2026
Hardcover / e-Book
Spread Me, October 2025
Hardcover / e-Book / audiobook
Just Like Home, June 2023
Trade Paperback / e-Book
Just Like Home, July 2022
Hardcover / e-Book
The Echo Wife, June 2022
Trade Size / e-Book
When We Were Magic, June 2021
Trade Size / e-Book
The Echo Wife, February 2021
Hardcover / e-Book
Upright Women Wanted, February 2020
Hardcover / e-Book
Magic for Liars, June 2019
Trade Size / e-Book

UPRIGHT WOMEN WANTED
By: Sarah Gailey

Tor.com
February 2020
On Sale: February 4, 2020
176 pages
ISBN: 1250213584
EAN: 9781250213587
Kindle: B07R8PCFN2
Hardcover / e-Book
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Science Fiction

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.