Brooks assembled a cast that delivers the joys and blunders waiting at the edge of childhood but also touches on the pangs of other kinds of growing up.
It doesn’t hurt that Craig and the producer James L. The director-writer Kelly Fremon Craig’s rendering of the book about puberty, family and nascent spirituality offers lessons in how a cherished object, when treated with tender and thoughtful regard, needn’t turn precious. And so begins the yearlong adventure at the heart of this pitch-perfect adaptation of the author Judy Blume’s “ Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.” Why? Because she and her parents are moving to New Jersey, her grandmother blurts out before her folks can ease their only child into the news. It’s a perfect fit for art lovers seeking a lovely to-and-fro escape through time.It is 1970 and the almost-12-year-old Margaret Simon returns from summer camp to boxes strewn about her family’s jammed New York City apartment. This story of art and artists across time is peppered with colorful characters, sexy interludes, and instances of poetic prose. May, meanwhile, is more inclined to pursue writing poetry than remaining in academia, and Bernini couldn’t agree more. Her visits with the great sculptor are often more satisfying than her current life, where she’s dating a fellow professor and her surly department head is plotting to end her career. She soon learns that she can slide effortlessly between that past and her present, although she isn’t certain how the time travel is achieved.
Even before the first day in Rome is finished, May is transported back to the Renaissance and interacts with her idol, Gianlorenzo Bernini, 500 years in the past. James, she’s pleased by his playful attitude and intrigued by his hints about the malleability of time. When May meets their tour guide, George St. May Gold, a 26-year-old adjunct art history professor from California, has joined her colleagues on their Renaissance club’s trip to Italy, where they visit Assisi, Florence, Rome, Siena, and Venice. Dacus’s debut is a delightful dance between present-day and Renaissance Italy, and will submerge readers in the art of Bernini, Michelangelo, and more.
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