The 2009 version with Romola Garai is essentially perfect. The new version with Ana Taylor-Joy is stunning, by the way. I run-not-walk towards adaptations and updates to Emma because it is such a wonderful story. Jane Austen is one of my all-time favorites, and Emma is arguably my favorite of her novels ( Emma, Pride and Prejudice, and Northanger Abbey are eternally battling it out for that coveted top spot). She hasn’t decided on her major yet, and has decided to spend her first semester taking gen-ed classes, finding the perfect boyfriend for her roommate-turned-BFF Lucy, and having an exciting parade of no-strings-attached one-night-stands (at least, when she’s not being firmly reprimanded by her RA, Rose). Fresh follows Elliot, a wealthy college freshman. ‘A modern-day queer retelling of Jane Austen’s Emma’ is more or less a decent description. After all that, was it worth the wait? Somewhat. I requested it from the library almost immediately, but the library must have lost it or something because I was number one on the list for nearly four months. A modern-day queer retelling of Jane Austen’s Emma? Yes, please. I saw a short video of Wood talking about it shortly before its publication and it sounded like a book I absolutely could not afford to miss. I’d been looking forward to Fresh by Margot Wood for a while.
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