A sterling remix of Little Women in a setting that left me stunned—because I’d never even heard of the Roanoke Island Freedmen’s Colony, despite living only about 200 miles away from the site.
So Many Beginnings by Bethany C. Morrow (Feiwel & Friends)
So many parallels.
So many differences.
Opening, like the original novel, in the height of the Civil War, we follow a different group of four sisters, temperamentally much like the originals—but this quartet must and will meet and conquer completely different challenges as they make their coming-of-age Pilgrims’ Progresses.
Wonderfully conceived, poignant, lively, romantic, full of family feeling.
Hey, Roanoke–you were the site of a second “lost colony!” Wouldn’t this story make another splendid outdoor drama?
Note: The books is part of the The Remixed Classics Series https://us.macmillan.com/series/remixedclassics being published by Macmillan. The series so far remixes Pride and Prejudice, Treasure Island, Wuthering Heights, and more.
Note: I went on to read the non-fic book that Bethany C. Morrow consulted for a lot of the historical background. My reactions and review of Time Full of Trial: The Roanoke Island Freedmen’s Colony, 1862-1867 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1180435.Time_Full_of_Trial, by Patricia C. Click, appear at Goodreads.
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