![]() ![]() I thought it likely that Jo would come out as transgender by the novel’s end but instead she comes out as lesbian. And it isn’t the secret that I thought that it might be. In this Jo has a secret she is keeping from her family, hinted at in diary entries and in her dialogue, which I don’t remember her having in Alcott’s original (it’s admittedly been a while…). On the whole this novel sticks well to the original’s plot, but there are some significant changes that Terciero and Indigo make to the original. Terciero and Indigo have moved the story from small town Concord to the more vibrant New York City with the Marches living in Brooklyn.Ĭhapters are frequently ended by emails sent by one of the girls to their father abroad. Laurence) and Laurie, even without the ties of blood to Meg, they are all four of them sisters. Amy and Beth are mixed race, but as Jo explains to Mr. ![]() ![]() March, who is a soldier stationed in the Middle East, are African American. March’s by his first marriage, and Beth and Amy are Mr. March’s daughter by her first marriage, Meg is Mr. In this, the sisters are from a blended family. This isn’t the first attempt to update the classic, but I think it might be the first to do so as a graphic novel, and it is the first that I have read. After 150 years, it was perhaps time for an updated version of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women. ![]()
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