LITTLE WOMEN AND ME
By: Lauren Baratz-Logsted
Publisher: Bloomsubury Publishing
Pub. Date: November 8, 2011
Formats: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Genre: YA Fantasy
Age Group: YoungAdults
Source: Publisher
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Publisher’s Synopsis: Emily is sick and tired of being a middle sister. So when she gets an assignment to describe what she’d change about a classic novel, Emily pounces on Little Women. After all, if she can’t change things in her own family, maybe she can bring a little justice to the March sisters. (Kill off Beth? Have cute Laurie wind up with Amy instead of Jo? What was Louisa May Alcott thinking?!) But when Emily gets mysteriously transported into the world of the book, she discovers that righting fictional wrongs won’t be easy. And after being immersed in a time and place so different from her own, it may be Emily-not the four March sisters-who undergoes the most surprising change of all. Lauren Baratz-Logsted’s winning confection will appeal to fans of Little Women as well as anyone who enjoys a modern twist on an old favorite.
INTO THE PAST with Lauren Baratz-Logsted:
My latest novel, LITTLE WOMEN AND ME, is about a contemporary teen who time-travels into the classic Louisa May Alcott novel, only to discover that in order to get back out again she’s going to have to change something pretty major about the book.
This is the fourth novel I’ve set in the 1800s. In addition to LITTLE WOMEN AND ME, there’s also THE TWIN’S DAUGHTER, a suspense novel about a teen who discovers that her gorgeous, wealthy mother has an identical twin who was raised in the poorhouse; THE EDUCATION OF BET, about a teen, the orphan of the maid, who decides to impersonate a boy so she can get the quality boarding-school education she desires; and VERTIGO, an adult suspense novel about a woman who takes up a correspondence with a man in prison for murdering his own wife, only to find herself falling in love with him. LITTLE WOMEN AND ME opens in 1861 in New England while the other three books take place in Victorian England.
Since I’ve written four books set in that time period, it’s reasonable to ask what it is that draws me to it. So here are two things: one that would make me want to time-travel there; and one that would make me never want to find myself there.
BEST REASON TO GO BACK: I love the romance of that time period, the formality in speech and dress. What can I say? I’ve watched a lot of Masterpiece Theatre!
BEST REASON TO STAY PUT: I’m addicted to decent indoor plumbing. Really, I could give up computers if I had to – I’d learn to write novels by candlelight like Leo Tolstoy. I could even give up TV – even General Hospital! But I cannot, and will not, give up decent indoor plumbing.
Thanks, Lauren!
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Amen sister on that indoor plumbing
Great questions/answers.
Juju at Tales of Whimsy… recently posted..International Contest: In the Forests of the Night
Wow! This just went straight on to my to-read list. I’m currently reading Little Women and I’m only 200 pages in, so I covered my eyes too late at the Laurie and Jo bit *spoiler*, but oh well! At least it’s the ending I’m hoping for:) Great interview! I’m definitely keeping an eye out for this book!
Sarah Bibi Setar recently posted..Debut of The Apocalypse Gene
I fully agree with you! I’ll take a little romance and when the urge hits-zoom back to the 21st century we go, hopefully dragging Mr. Romance with me!
Heather
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I’m far too attached to indoor plumbing too! I can do without for a few days if I’m going camping, but it is positively GLORIOUS when I get home and run straight to the shower.
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I wouldn’t give up indoor plumbing either. *ick* But knowing you wouldn’t want to travel in real life, makes the escape through a great story even better. It’s the only way I get to enjoy the era (the only way I want to).
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