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Are You There, Judy? It's Me, Your Reader

By: Sari Edelstein, The Great Courses
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She’s the inventor of middle-grade literature. She’s the author of landmark books like Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. In 2023, she was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine. In short, Judy Blume has had a profound impact on literary culture.

But Blume’s popularity is even more significant given that many of her books are seen as scandalous for their candid explorations of puberty and sexuality. What makes Judy Blume’s books so offensive to some audiences, yet so beloved to others?

This question forms the heart of Sari Edelstein’s Are You There, Judy? It’s Me, Your Reader, an insightful Audible Original for new and long-standing Blume readers alike. Professor Edelstein examines the enduring appeal of Judy Blume’s books. Over seven lessons, you’ll learn how Blume pioneered middle-grade and young adult (YA) literature and helped to make these genres the global sensations they are today. You’ll identify the themes and motifs that run throughout her books, and you’ll review Blume’s books as literary work worthy of analysis. You’ll also see why the very act of questioning (about the existence of God, the persistence of racism, the unwritten rules of suburbia) is so central to Blume’s vision of coming-of-age literature.

Discover how writers can capture the way young people see the world—and, in doing so, reframe the perspectives of adult readers, as well.

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Sari Edelstein, professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Boston, teaches courses on 19th-century American literature, women’s writing, and coming-of-age literature. She also serves as codirector of the university’s Center for the Humanities, Culture, and Society. Professor Edelstein has published two scholarly books, Between the Novel and the News: The Emergence of American Women’s Writing and Adulthood and Other Fictions: American Literature and the Unmaking of Age, and is the coeditor of ESQ: A Journal of Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture.

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In my experience,this analysis of Judy Blume’s themes and style is accurate and thought-provoking. I grew up with many of her books, and she gets it. “Are you there, G-d? It’s me, Margaret” covered things that were so important at the time: periods (and practicing using a pad), comparison of breast sizes (are you still flat or do you have nubbins?), and peer pressure (not liking one girl because she developed young).

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Well thought out and one point

This makes me want to listen to all of her books again.,
great reminder of themes and lessons missed when read in childhood.

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Educational on what our country deems fit to ban


it is hard to believe any Judy Blume books could be banned. Everything and everyone are so busy today that her books are a good source for children to get an idea of how they should be recognized and treated in a decent format. I applaud Blume's books. Our kids see FAR worse on TV and at home. I liked the entire book, except where the author interviewed her own daughter. The message, itself, was good. It just sounded like her daughter was speaking as an adult.

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Don’t bother..

Pointless book. Don’t bother listening to it. Instead just read some Judy Bloom and enjoy

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