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Heresy

by Melissa Lenhardt
Barrie Kreinik
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"An all-out women-driven, queer, transgender, multiracial takeover of the Old West . . . and that's exactly what Melissa Lenhardt delivers in her unapologetically badass western, Heresy." - New York Times
"Lenhardt has created a bold new story where women have taken their rightful place in the narrative of the Outlaw Western genre; where wit, wisdom and wiles could mean the difference between life and death, and where the fellowship of women bested every challenge." — Kathleen Kent
Margaret Parker and Hattie LaCour never intended to turn outlaw.
After being run off their ranch by a greedy cattleman, their family is left destitute. As women alone they have few choices: marriage, lying on their backs for money, or holding a gun. For Margaret and Hattie the choice is simple. With their small makeshift family, the gang pulls off a series of heists across the West.
Though the newspapers refuse to give the female gang credit, their exploits don't go unnoticed. Pinkertons are on their trail, a rival male gang is determined to destroy them, and secrets among the group threaten to tear them apart. Now, Margaret and Hattie must find a way to protect their family, finish one last job, and avoid the hangman's noose.

"Readers who relish an unusual narrative structure will enjoy this unique take on the traditional western." — Booklist

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    October 26, 2021

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      • ISBN: 9781549112508
      • File size: 404754 KB
      • Duration: 14:03:14

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    • English

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    • Booklist

      September 1, 2018
      The James Gang and the Dalton Gang had nothing on the Parker Gang: intelligent, careful planners, and, unlike other Old West bands of outlaws, the Parker Gang was all female. Having been robbed of her ranch by an unscrupulous neighbor, Margaret Garet Parker seeks her revenge by robbing his bank. Seeing that she has a knack for the outlaw life, Garet, along with her makeshift family of outcasts, robs stagecoaches and even more banks. After encountering the gang midrobbery, writer Grace asks to join them. Garet, facing a terminal illness, decides that Grace is the perfect person to record her story. This one impulsive decision sets the gang on a collision course with other outlaws and Pinkerton detectives. The overall plot is fast paced, despite the format: the story is told through diary entries, newspaper clippings, and WPA slave-narrative interviews, which adds some distance between the reader and characters, and the story is bookended with the viewpoint of a modern historian who discovers Garet's diary. Readers who relish an unusual narrative structure will enjoy this unique take on the traditional western.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2018, American Library Association.)

    • AudioFile Magazine
      A full cast offers variety and verisimilitude in this production of Melissa Lenhardt's take on a Western. The story features three late-nineteenth-century women who become outlaws after being robbed of their Colorado horse ranch. Englishwoman Margaret Parker (Barrie Kreinik), former slave Hatty LaCour (Ella Turenne), and ex-Pinkerton detective Claire Hamilton (Bailey Carr) tell their stories of living, loving, riding, and robbing. A professorial introduction by Stephanie Bailey (Nikki Massoud), WPA interviews by researcher Grace Williams (Natalie Naudus), a podcast hosted by Krys Chestnut (Imani Jade Powers), and newspaper excerpts delivered by James Fouhey further enhance the audiobook's realism, while slowing the action and varying the story's pace. This is a diverting and unique tale about the Old West. A.C.S. 2022 Audies Finalist © AudioFile 2022, Portland, Maine

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