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The Little Women : a Novel by Katharine Weber is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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A delightfully clever contemporary novel inspired by the Louisa May Alcott classic 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. 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. Their notes and Jo's replies form a second narrative, as they argue about the "truth" of the novel. 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

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Author

Katharine Weber

Publisher

Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9781429923989

Category

work of fiction

Rating

3.44 / 5 (276 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14