![]() ![]() ![]() She is also the program director of We Need Diverse Books. She writes books from her home in the Seattle area, where she lives with her husband and two children.Ĭaroline Tung Richmond is the award-winning author of The Only Thing to Fear, The Darkest Hour, and Hungry Hearts. Her debut middle-grade novel, A Field Guide to Getting Lost, is a Junior Library Guild Selection. Joy McCullough's debut YA novel Blood Water Paint was named to the National Book Award Longlist and was a finalist for the William C. Woven together, these threads tell a story of finding one's way in a world undergoing catastrophic change. Theodore Laurence is stationed as an army pilot.Įach March sister's point of view is written by a separate author, three in prose and Beth's in verse, still holding the family together from beyond the grave. Under the strain of their grief, Beth's remaining sisters fracture, each going their own way, with Jo nursing her wounds and building planes in Connecticut, Meg holding down the home front with Marmee, and Amy living a secret life as a Red Cross volunteer in London-the same city where one Mr. While the US starts sending troops to the front, the March family of Concord, Massachusetts, grieves their own enormous loss: the death of daughter Beth. ![]() In the fall of 1942, the United States is still reeling from the attack on Pearl Harbor. A reimagining of Little Women set in 1942, when the United States is suddenly embroiled in the Second World War, this story, told from each March sister's point of view, is one of grief, love, and self-discovery. ![]()
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