wino forever

in case any of you were wondering, oprah winfrey's tv channel (OWN) does in fact include work by white people (post-racial sociopolitical analysis another day). i know this because in a burst of desperate channel surfing i landed upon a presentation of little women. the book was immensely formative for me, though i have no idea how other girls of my generation relate to it. were they all too busy with the boy band du jour? do they even know the book exists? i am of course jo, the bookish firebrand who sells her hair and takes up with an older gentleman, but how i desperately wanted amy's vocation and beth's grace. meg was always horrible.