There’s much talk in popular culture these days of “feeling seen”: finding our inner lives and specific identities reflected in art created by strangers who nonetheless, it seems,…
, nostalgia for that sense of formative discovery is balanced by a present-tense exploration of Blume’s enduring popularity, resonance and controversy, assisted by the game storytelling presence of the author herself, sparky as ever in her mid-eighties.
“She knows what kids are and she knows what adults are,” says a teenage fan in 1970s archival footage midway through the film, from a snaking bookshop queue of kids eager to meet Blume at the zenith of her career.
Anyone imagining Blume as a righteous, bra-burning feminist of the era may be surprised, however, by the doc’s rather touching portrait of a young woman caught between demure domesticity and itching rebellion, her calling to write driven by the more repressed aspects of her straitlaced upbringing in postwar suburban New Jersey.
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