H is Little Women, loosely based on Louisa May Alcott's classic, Little Women (1868-1869), is a contemporary treatment of the themes of sisterhood and daughterhood. Instead of being part of a stable family centered on a mother in the Alcott mold, Rossner's four sisters are set adrift by parents who are themselves coming apart. Sam Pearlstein, their charismatic father, has had three wives, each of whom he has left, abandoning his daughters at crucial moments in their young lives. His Little Women centers on the two older girls, Louisa and Nell, who meet for the first time at ages twenty-seven and seventeen at the funeral of Nell's second father, Tony. At that point Louisa has already abandoned her own young son to come to California in a bid for her father's love, and Nell soon embarks on a parallel quest. In their search for Sam's love...