Now, it’s being developed into a TV series.Ībby Ryder Fortson, who previously starred in the Amazon Prime series, Transparent, will play Margaret and Rachel McAdams is portraying her mother. Margaret is trying to balance navigating life as a teenage girl and finding her identity. The young-adult novel tells the story of a sixth-grader who has grown up without a religious affiliation due to her parents’ interfaith marriage.
Judy Blume’s coming-of-age novel Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret was first published in 1970 and it has been both challenged and celebrated for its frankness over the years.
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Throughout her journey, she must navigate the unique terrors for Black people in the pre-Civil War era, and evade capture at the hands of her bounty hunter Ridgeway (played by Joel Edgerton), who will stop at nothing to bring her back to the plantation she escaped.Īll 10 episodes of the original series landed on Amazon Prime on 14 May and are still available to watch.īuy The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead from, £8.36 She escapes in pursuit of the fabled Underground Railroad, only to discover a secret, subterranean network which picks up fugitives wherever it can. Prepare to hear Thuso Mbedu’s name everywhere from this point forwards, because we predict that after the release of Amazon Prime’s highly anticipated series, The Underground Railroad, the breakout actor will be in big demand.īased on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead and directed by Moonlight’s Barry Jenkins, The Underground Railroad chronicles Cora Randall’s (Mbedu) desperate bid for freedom from a cotton plantation in the antebellum South.