Fall 1942. The United States is reeling from the attack on Pearl Harbor...and the March family of Massachusetts grieves their own enormous loss: the death of their daughter, Beth. Meg stays home with Marmee, teaching school and writing letters to her beau, John, in the army. Meg is filled with doubt about her choices: Does a life with John mean saying goodbye to her dreams? Jo moves into a boardinghouse and works in a factory making planes for the war effort. When she connects with journalists Charlotte, Jo can't deny the truth she's been running from: she feels for Charlotte what everyone expected her to feel for Laurie. Amy lies her way into the Red Cross, serving coffee and doughnuts to American troops in London -- the same city where one Mr. Theodore Laurence is stationed as an army pilot. Beth watches her sisters learn to live without her, nudging them back to one another...and to the power of their family's love. Each March sister's point of view is written by a separate author, three in prose and Beth's in verse, still holding the family together from beyond the grave.