Agent: Jim McCarthy, Dystel, Goderich & Bourret. Haunting verse lines give Beth a memorable presence that provides insight into the girls’ individual motivations, shares anecdotes of her own imperfect life, and pushes back against her traditional casting as “some sort of angel/ incapable of range or envy or deceit.” As each sister individually navigates her grief, the white siblings find the strength to mend their broken relationships and pursue the promise of romantic love in this modernization that gives these much-loved sisters new energy and a satisfying sense of agency. A reimagining of Little Women set in 1942, when the United States is suddenly. Meg remains in the family’s now quiet childhood home, steadfastly dependable even as she struggles to suppress growing anger and fear. Read Great or Nothing by Joy McCullough available from Rakuten Kobo. Amy, meanwhile, lies her way to London to serve in a new Red Cross program while her family believes her to be attending art school in Montreal. Jo flees to Connecticut, where she works long hours as riveter in an airforce factory and begins to develop feelings for a coworker’s sister. Barely on speaking terms after an emotionally charged argument, both Jo-who has rejected a proposal-and Amy leave their Massachusetts home. She lives deep in the backwoods with a pack of dogs and a growing colony of formerly feral cats. Born in a mountain cabin to a punk-rocker mother, Tess Sharpe grew up in rural California. In a fresh, collaborative take on Little Women set against a 1942 WWII backdrop, the four authors alternatingly voice the four March sisters. Great or Nothing Joy McCullough, Caroline Tung Richmond, Tess Sharpe, and Jessica Spotswood.
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