It’s only that what was revolutionary in 1860s is less so now. This story remains a celebration of familial love and a wholesome read in a time of darkness. This was a longer graphic novel with a lot of text on each page compared to others that I have read, but still a much more accessible adaptation of the original work for both its length, its color, and its modern vernacular. The novel still has the symmetry of the original, opening and closing on Christmas, covering only Little Women and not Good Wives, which is often nowadays released as the second half of Little Women, the two together in a single volume. I was disappointed not to see Aunt Cath with them there, knowing that Meg had wanted her to come. She is the catalyst in her family attending the Women’s March in DC. Meg does not marry the rich and well-connected Brooks when he laughs at her notion to become a lawyer for the less fortunate instead of taking the Vogue internship that he with his connections has secured for her. Her bravery in coming out to her family encourages Aunt Cath to wrestle with her own prejudices and come to the revelation that she herself is lesbian. 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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