Ava DuVernay puts a fantastically trippy spin on the messy, moving 'A Wrinkle in Time'
Near the end of Madeleine L'Engle's "A Wrinkle in Time," a character compares life to a sonnet - a work governed by strict patterns of rhyme and rhythm, but one that allows for complete creative freedom within those limitations. "You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself," she says. "What you say is entirely up to you."
L'Engle knew of what she spoke. Within the ostensibly exacting parameters of children's literature, she spun a thrillingly strange and intellectually capacious adventure story, replete with elements of fantasy and science fiction, interdimensional travel and quantum physics, secular philosophy and Christian parable. It was rejected by at least 26 publishers and went on to be banned by more than a few school libraries,
