![]() Here are eight Westerns… kidding! Here are eight novels of historical fiction set in the Northwest that do just that: Washington: Sarah Canary by Karen Joy Fowler I like the surprise of it, and the thought of people buying the book assuming it is about rugged men on the range with their guns and instead getting a future-seeing woman in a city, armed only with her considerable wits. I like calling the story a feminist Western, an urban Western, a magical Western. ![]() But, because it is a novel set in a certain time: The Past. There are some cigarettes, though no firearms. To me, the genre of Western was something different-stories of cowboys riding horses and smoking cigarettes and shooting guns. ![]() In the five years I spent working on Fire Season, I always just called it historical fiction. ![]() I did not realize I had written a Western until I learned my novel was going to be marketed as such. ![]()
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