The biggest character change that is made involves Jo, as she is queer in both novels and experiences a coming out storyline in each. * slight spoiler ahead, read at your own risk* Jo contains additional narration in Jo’s blog, while in Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy, Jo writes a journal and additional information is shared in emails from the various March sisters to their father.
Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy is set in New York City while Jo adopts a more suburban setting. Part of this includes changing the setting. Because both of these graphic novels are modern adaptations of Little Women, it seems almost necessary to compare them and look at the work they’re doing compared to Alcott’s original 1868 Little Women.īoth books are modern adaptations of Little Women, placing Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy along with the various characters who join them along the way in current times and updating the scenarios they face with more modern ones (say goodbye to pickled limes). I’d already read another modern graphic novel adaptation of Little Women by Rey Terciero and Bre Indigo called Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy that was published in 2019 (My dogs also ate my copy of Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy this summer). So when I saw, Jo: An adaptation of Little Women (sort of) by Kathleen Gros on the graphic novel shelves in the Tween Room at the Brookline Public Library, I had to check it out. I’ve published poetry written in response to some of her works, reviewed a spinoff young adult novel, and visited her home of Orchard House multiple times. I wanted it to have a happy ending because I didn’t have a happy ending when I came out to my family it was a tough reaction from them.It’s not a big secret that I’m a pretty big fan of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women. “I just felt that I had been building up to that from the beginning of the book. “The chapters I enjoyed writing the most was definitely when Jo came out,” Terciero said. In the new book, readers see Jo recoil at the romantic overtures of her friendly neighbor Laurie Marquez and begins figuring out her own sexual orientation and how she should tell her family that she is gay. That last point is also why Terciero addressed something that has been hotly debated by Alcott fans for generations: Jo March’s sexuality. “I wanted an audience that says, ‘I see myself in this book because I am in a blended family’ or because they are black or because they are gay. “‘Little Women’ has been told and retold dozens and dozens of times and there are books about Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy, but once again they are all white and they are all the same,” Terciero said. For Terciero, getting to work on the beloved novel was a chance to introduce the story to younger readers who may not relate to the characters in most American classics.
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