There’s not much plot here, but readers will relish the opportunity to climb inside Autumn’s head.Ī Mexican American boy takes on heavy responsibilities when his family is torn apart. Even secondary characters are well-rounded, with their own histories and motivations.
Autumn’s coming-of-age is sensitively chronicled, with a wide range of experiences and events shaping her character. But on August 8, everything changes, and Autumn has to rely on all her strength to move on. In the summer after graduation, Autumn and Finny reconnect and are finally ready to be more than friends. Growing up, Autumn and Finny were like peas in a pod despite their differences: Autumn is “quirky and odd,” while Finny is “sweet and shy and everyone like him.” But in eighth grade, Autumn and Finny stop being friends due to an unexpected kiss. They drift apart and find new friends, but their friendship keeps asserting itself at parties, shared holiday gatherings and random encounters. The finely drawn characters capture readers’ attention in this debut.Īutumn and Phineas, nicknamed Finny, were born a week apart their mothers are still best friends. Eventually Jo comes into focus and the ending has honesty and heart, though some readers may crave a firmer resolution. The story starts out meanderingly slowly and heavy on bickering and Little Women references only existing fans will get. The main characters are all White except Laurie, a Black classmate with acting ambitions, and some of the Beths. When a New York reporter comes to do a possible national feature story on the show, Jo sees her and her cute son, Hudson, as a possible way out of the life she finds stagnant.
She’s got a crush on David, Meg’s ex who’s signed on to play John Brooke in the upcoming season. From Jo’s point of view the sisters’ personalities track, too: Meg is pretty, Amy spoiled, and despite her wish to earn a cross-country scholarship to college, Jo gets stuck being resentfully responsible. As in Alcott’s book, their father is vaguely elsewhere. Tensions-romantic and otherwise-abound for high school junior Jo Porter, better known (though still not all that well, to her dismay) for portraying Jo March in her family’s theater production, Little Women Live!įor the past seven years, Jo and her sisters, Meg, a senior, and Amy, a sophomore-in the absence of a fourth sister, they hold annual auditions for a Beth-have played their parts in turning their mother’s favorite book into a “semiprofessional tourist attraction” on their small Kansas farm.
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