Whereas in Alcott's original tale, the Civil War was a background part of the plot, in So Many Beginnings, the war and its aftermath are central to the March family's lives. Morrow, who is African American, wasn't interested in tweaking Louisa May Alcott's iconic novel about four sisters in mid-1800s New England. Which the title indicates: So Many Beginnings: A Little Women Remix. "I know that as soon as I make the March sisters Black girls, I am not reimagining Little Women," she said, "I'm telling a completely different story." She agreed, on one condition - her book would not reimagine anything. Morrow already had several books in different genres published when she was asked to consider another: a re-envisioning of the beloved classic Little Women.
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