![]() ![]() Those familiar with Alcott’s work will recognize much in this new version: the family’s financial struggles Beth’s illness (albeit leukemia, not scarlet fever) a kind neighbor and his grandson Laurie Laurie’s handsome tutor with an interest in Meg the March’s great-aunt, whom Jo assists. The story was first serialized at Tapas Media last year, in honor of the 150th anniversary of Little Women, but is now available as a hardcover graphic novel or single e-book. After Robert and Madison married they had Beth, a quiet musician finding her voice, and Amy, an ebullient artist. Like the original, she wants to be a writer. ![]() Jo, next in line, is the child of their White mother Madison and her first husband, who left them. Like the original Meg, she loves clothes and parties and hopes to marry rich. Meg, the oldest, was born to their Black father Robert and his first wife before she died. Their father is absent, this time because he is serving with the Army in the Middle East. In Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy, by Rey Terciero and Bre Indigo (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers), as in the original, the four sisters are living with their mother in Brooklyn, New York, and trying to make ends meet. ![]() Now, a new graphic novel reimagines the four March sisters as a modern, multiracial family-and yes (spoiler alert), Jo is gay. ![]() When I first read Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women as a child, I identified most with tomboy Jo, as did many a fledgling queer girl, I imagine. ![]()
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