GREAT OR NOTHING

A reimagining of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women set in the spring of 1942, in which each March sister's point of view is written by a separate author.

While the US starts sending troops to the front during World War II, the March family of Concord, Massachusetts, grieves their own enormous loss: the death of their daughter, Beth. Under the strain of their grief, Beth's remaining sisters fracture, each going their own way. Each March sister's point of view is written by a separate author, three in prose and Beth's in verse, still holding the family together from beyond the grave. Woven together, these threads tell a story of grief, family, and finding one's way in a world undergoing catastrophic change. Joy McCullough's debut young adult novel Blood Water Paint (Penguin) won the Washington State and Pacific Northwest books awards, as well as honors such as the National Book Award longlist, finalist for the ALA Morris Award, a Publishers Weekly Flying Start and four starred reviews. Her debut middle grade novel, A Field Guide to Getting Lost (Simon & Schuster) is a Junior Library Guild Selection. Caroline Tung Richmond is an award-winning young adult author whose historical novels include The Great Destroyers, The Only Thing to Fear, and The Darkest Hour. She is also the co-editor of Hungry Hearts, an anthology of interconnected stories about food, love, and culture. Tess Sharpe is an anthologist and author of award winning and critically acclaimed fiction for children, teens and adults, including The Girls I've Been and Barbed Wire Heart. Jessica Spotswood is the author of the historical fantasy trilogy The Cahill Witch Chronicles and the contemporary novels Wild Swans and The Last Summer of the Garrett Girls. She is the editor of the feminist anthologies A Tyranny of Petticoats and The Radical Element and co-editor (with Tess Sharpe) of Toil & Trouble.