Overview
Jo March is the second-year transfer who arrives at Thornwood Academy with a half-finished manuscript, a permanent ink stain on her right hand, and the absolute certainty that she is going to write the greatest novel ever written. She is loud, competitive, chronically sorry about the wrong things, and entirely unprepared for the discovery that her Craft doesn't just capture reality on the page -- it reshapes it.
Gift
Jo's tradition is the Gifts of Making, specifically through words. Each March sister channels the family Gift through a different medium: Jo writes stories that reshape reality. Meg weaves costumes that transform their wearers. Beth plays music that heals. Amy draws images that come alive.
The risk: pouring too much of yourself into what you make. The Craft depletes the maker.
At Thornwood
Rooted into Ashwood as a second-year transfer, Jo is an instant kindred spirit with Anne Shirley -- both writers, both Ashwood, both too much. The competition between them is real and sometimes ugly. Her crow companion, Quill, steals her manuscript pages and rearranges them into better chapter order.
Notable
- Rooted into Ashwood Grove (second-year transfer)
- Companion: Quill, a Thornwood crow and literary critic trapped in a bird's body
- Her spoken voice is a series of controlled explosions; her written voice is elegant and precise
- Starts sentences she cannot finish