5/10/2023 0 Comments Book ways to make sunshine![]() ![]() ![]() In my memory, “Margaret” was chiefly about puberty, specifically about getting your period for the first time. ![]() I recently reread her classic, “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret,” in advance of seeing the film adaptation that opens this week, 52 years after the book’s publication. They might very well remember the precise page number of the paperback that was passed around middle school on which the most eye-opening passages appeared. If you ask any kids who grew up reading Judy Blume, they’ll tell you precisely what they learned from each of Blume’s books which taboo rites of passage each book introduced probably even where they were, physically and developmentally, when they first stumbled on this information. ![]()
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