![]() Meg feels like she isn’t doing enough for the war effort, isn’t strong enough to hold her family together after Beth’s death and wonders whether marrying John, whom Amy has dismissed as a “boring old fuddy-duddy,” will make her happy. Jo yearns to write again and to understand how she feels about her adventurous reporter friend, Charlie Yates. ![]() Amy wrestles with the secret life she’s living, which becomes a bigger issue when she encounters Jo’s friend Laurie in a hospital in England. Meg has remained at home with Marmee to teach high school English and wait for John Brooke to return home from the war.Įach sister struggles with her choices and who she is growing up to become. ![]() Amy has set aside her art, lied about her age and, without telling her family, joined the American Red Cross in London, where she serves as a Clubmobile girl. Jo has given up writing and moved to a big-city boardinghouse to work in an airplane factory. The remaining March sisters have had a bitter falling-out and are scattered across the world. The novel opens a few months after Beth’s death. ![]() ![]() In Great or Nothing, a creative retelling of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women co-written by Joy McCullough, Caroline Tung Richmond, Tess Sharpe and Jessica Spotswood, Meg, Jo and Amy March face choices and sacrifices after their sister Beth dies and the United States enters World War II. During times of war, every person must make their own choices-and their own sacrifices. ![]()
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