Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Waiting on Wednesday: The Little Women Letters by Gabrielle Donnelly


Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine.

It gives people a change to share what books we're so excited about that we can't wait for them to come out.

Here is this week's pick:

The Little Women Letters by Gabrielle Donnelly

Summary from GoodReads:
Vibrant, fresh, and intelligent, The Little Women Letters explores the imagined lives of Jo March’s descendants—three sisters who are both thoroughly modern and thoroughly March. As uplifting and essential as Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, Gabrielle Donnelly’s novel will speak to anyone who’s ever fought with a sister, fallen in love with a fabulous pair of shoes, or wondered what on earth life had in store for her.

With her older sister, Emma, planning a wedding and her younger sister, Sophie, preparing to launch a career on the London stage, Lulu can’t help but feel like the failure of the Atwater family. Lulu loves her sisters dearly and wants nothing but the best for them, but she finds herself stuck in a rut, working dead-end jobs with no romantic prospects in sight. When her mother asks her to find a cache of old family recipes in the attic of her childhood home, Lulu stumbles across a collection of letters written by her great-great-grandmother Josephine March. In her letters, Jo writes in detail about every aspect of her life: her older sister, Meg’s, new home and family; her younger sister Amy’s many admirers; Beth’s illness and the family’s shared grief over losing her too soon; and the butterflies she feels when she meets a handsome young German. As Lulu delves deeper into the lives and secrets of the March sisters, she finds solace and guidance, but can the words of her great-great-grandmother help Lulu find a place for herself in a world so different from the one Jo knew? Vibrant, fresh, and intelligent, The Little Women Letters explores the imagined lives of Jo March’s descendants—three sisters who are both thoroughly modern and thoroughly March. As uplifting and essential as Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, Gabrielle Donnelly’s novel will speak to anyone who’s ever fought with a sister, fallen in love with a fabulous pair of shoes, or wondered what on earth life had in store for her.

Some things, of course, remain unchanged: the stories and jokes that form a family’s history, the laughter over tea in the afternoon, the desire to do the right thing in spite of obstacles. And above all, of course, the fierce, undying, and often infuriating bond of sisterhood that links the Atwater women every bit as firmly as it did the March sisters all those years ago. Both a loving tribute to Little Women and a wonderful contemporary family story, The Little Women Letters is a heartwarming, funny, and wise novel for today.

I love Little Women and this book looks so good. It comes out June 7th, 2011. What's on your wishlist this week?

6 comments:

  1. Oh, this one sounds awesome! It's going on my list. I so loved Little Women and read some of the books about LMA last year (Lost Summer, etc.) for a challenge. Now I want this one!

    Here's MY WOW POST

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  2. I've been hearing really good things about this one! I definitely want to read it too :)

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  3. What a neat idea for a book! I look forward to hearing what you think about it.

    Paranormal Wastelands' WoW
    http://paranormalwastelands.blogspot.com/2011/06/waiting-on-wednesday.html

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  4. Awesome! Loved Little Women, this sounds like a great follow-up. Please check out what I'm waiting for!

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  5. I just bought this one last week. Can't wait to read it.
    Sally.
    http://theelifylop.blogspot.com/2011/06/waiting-on-wednesday-21.html

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  6. This is a great choice.

    I am a new follower :)

    My WoW for this week, http://obsessionwithbooks.blogspot.com

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