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A B O U T--T H E--B O O K
Written in the form of an autobiographical novel by Joanna, the middle sister, the pages of the Little Women are punctuated by comments from the "real" Meg and Amy, as they confront their novelist sister both when she strays from the "truth" and when she appropriates and reveals personal details. Why do readers insist on searching for the autobiographical elements of fiction? When does a novelist go too far in mulching actual experience for a novel? What rights, if any, does a writer have to grant the people in her life and story? The
family she always wanted Meg,
Jo and Amy: Something Sound Familiar? Riffing
on Louisa May Alcott An
author displays her mind but hides her heart The
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About the book 
In
Katharine Weber's third novel, The Little Women, three adolescent sisters
-- Meg, Jo, and Amy -- are shocked when they discover their mother's
affair, but are truly devastated by their father's apparently easy forgiveness
of her. Shattered by their parents' failure to live up to the moral
standards and values of the family, the two younger sisters leave New
York (and their private school) and move to Meg's apartment in New Haven,
where Meg is a junior at Yale. They enroll in the local inner-city public
high school, and divorced from their parents, they try to make a life
with Meg as their surrogate mother.