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For the 150th anniversary of Louisa May Alcott's beloved classic, Kate Bolick, Jenny Zhang, Carmen Maria Machado, and Jane Smiley explore their strong lifelong personal engagement with Little Women - what it has meant to them and why it still matters. Each takes as her subject one of the four March sisters, reflecting on each particular sister's story and what it has to teach us. Bolick writes about how the depiction of Meg as the 'ideal woman' reveals Alcott's dim views of marriage and planted seeds in Bolick's own young mind. Zhang, unlike many readers, considered Jo her least favourite sister as a girl, and writes about how Jo eventually won her heart. Machado brings her SF and horror sensibilities to a unique perspective on Beth, 'dead & pure girl extraordinaire'; and Smiley, who considers Amy the most captivating sister, writes about Amy's evolution into the responsibilities of adulthood from the perspective of Smiley's own experience of motherhood. These four voices come together to form a deep, funny, far-ranging meditation on the power of great literature to shape our lives.
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"In addition to sharing literary insights and personal histories, the authors also discuss the extent to which the Marches resembled and diverged from their real-life models: Alcott's own sisters. Any readers who have ever compared themselves to Meg, Jo, Beth, or Amy--or to all four--will enjoy seeing Alcott's much-loved classic through these alternate perspectives." --Publishers Weekly "Reading the 19th-century novel through a contemporary lens, writers Kate Bolick, Jenny Zhang, Carmen Maria Machado and Jane Smiley have, in March Sisters: On Life, Death, and Little Women produced essays that are fresh, layered and insightful. . . . The March sisters march on in this stimulating, discerning and engaging book." --Minneapolis Star-Tribune "Jane Smiley's fresh, sharp take on the much-maligned Amy, is a tonic--and a revelation." --The Wall Street Journal
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KATE BOLICK is the author of Spinster: Making a Life of One's Own and is a contributing editor to The Atlantic.
JENNY ZHANG is a writer and poet based in New York City and the author of the story collection Sour Heart.
CARMEN MARIA MACHADO is the author of the story collection Her Body and Other Parties and a contributor to The New Yorker, Granta, Tin House, Guernica, and other publications.
JANE SMILEY is the author of many novels, works of nonfiction, and books for young adults, including A Thousand Acres and The Last Hundred Years trilogy, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Kate Bolick lives in Brooklyn. Jenny Zhang lives in New York City. Carmen Maria Machado lives in Philadelphia. Jane Smiley lives in northern California.
JENNY ZHANG is a writer and poet based in New York City and the author of the story collection Sour Heart.
CARMEN MARIA MACHADO is the author of the story collection Her Body and Other Parties and a contributor to The New Yorker, Granta, Tin House, Guernica, and other publications.
JANE SMILEY is the author of many novels, works of nonfiction, and books for young adults, including A Thousand Acres and The Last Hundred Years trilogy, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Kate Bolick lives in Brooklyn. Jenny Zhang lives in New York City. Carmen Maria Machado lives in Philadelphia. Jane Smiley lives in northern California.
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