We are excited to host an Instagram Live interview with author Bethany C. Morrow on her book So Many Beginnings.
IMAGE VIA BETHANY C. MORROW
From reimaginings of classics like Snow White and Cinderella to movie remakes like IT, adaptations are the bread and butter of today’s pop culture. Bethany C. Morrow jumps on the trend with fervor, bringing about her version of Little Women.
Her book brings a measure of nuance to the much loved coming-of-age novel which has recently been turned into a movie starring Timothy Chalamet and Emma Watson. Set in 1863, the book brings the joy of black female representation written by a black woman to YA, a genre that has suffered from its lack until very recently.
So Many Beginnings stars four Black sisters coming of age during the American Civil War. It is not a more inclusive companion to be read alongside Little Women, but instead a rich, thoughtful, and well-researched story of its own, only drawing character parallels from Louisa May Alcott’s text.
So Many Beginnings is part of a new young adult historical series called Remixed Classics, wherein authors from marginalized backgrounds take classics and reinterpret them through their own unique cultural lens. The books give teens from marginalized groups a chance to see themselves centered in classic literature and challenges readers to question what (and who) our society has deemed “classic.” There are currently seven novels signed up in the series. The next book is TRAVELERS ALONG THE WAY: A Robin Hood Remix by Aminah Mae Safi (on sale 3/1/22).
IMAGE VIA BETHANY C. MORROW
Bethany C. Morrow is an Indie Bestselling Author who writes for adult and young adult audiences in genres ranging from speculative literary to contemporary fantasy, to historical. She is author of the novels Mem; A Song Below Water and its companion A Chorus Rises; So Many Beginnings: A Little Women Remix; and the social horror Cherish Farrah; and editor/contributor to the young adult anthology Take the Mic, which was the 2020 ILA Social Justice in Literature award winner. Her work has been chosen as Indies Introduce and Indie Next Picks and featured in The LA Times, Forbes, Bustle, Buzzfeed, and more. She is included on USA TODAY’s list of 100 Black novelists and fiction writers you should read.