The author looks beneath the innocent veneer of one of Louisa May Alcott's lesser-known works for children and discovers a different kind of "poisoned sugarplum" than those penned by Jo March and A. M. Barnard, one in which the construction and staging of male disability becomes a critically informing impulse.
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