At a time when chil­dren’s lit­er­a­ture was filled with pic­ture-per­fect fam­i­lies, Mar­i­lyn Sachs paint­ed a dark­er, rich­er reality.

Revis­it­ing Louisa May Alcot­t’s clas­sic 150 years afters its release, and its minor (and mild­ly offen­sive) Jew­ish characters.