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'Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret' Broke Taboos Around Interfaith Marriage

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How Judy Blume's 'Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret' broke taboos around interfaith marriage – The Forward

The young adult classic, soon to be a movie, was a rare portrayal of an increasingly common reality, writes a kids lit critic.

How Judy Blume's 'Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret' broke taboos

Through the 1960s, middle-grade and young adult fiction rarely acknowledged the existence of these families, reflecting and reinforcing their outsider status.

How Judy Blume broke taboos around interfaith marriage – J.

For young readers in 1970, discussion of religious identity in Judy Blume's "Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret" proved as life-changing as the novel's honest portrayal of puberty and menstruation.