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We Love You, Charlie Freeman

We Love You, Charlie Freeman

Greenidge, Kaitlyn

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General FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 1616206446
ISBN13: 9781616206444
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Published: Jan 31 2017
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.75
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.10
Language: English
A FINALIST FOR THE 2016 CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE AND THE 2017 YOUNG LIONS AWARD

Don't miss Kaitlyn Greenidge's second novel, Libertie, which is available now!

A terrifically auspicious debut. --Janet Maslin, The New York Times

Smart, timely and powerful . . . A rich examination of America's treatment of race, and the ways we attempt to discuss and confront it today. --The Huffington Post

The Freeman family--Charles, Laurel, and their daughters, teenage Charlotte and nine-year-old Callie--have been invited to the Toneybee Institute to participate in a research experiment. They will live in an apartment on campus with Charlie, a young chimp abandoned by his mother. The Freemans were selected because they know sign language; they are supposed to teach it to Charlie and welcome him as a member of their family. But when Charlotte discovers the truth about the institute's history of questionable studies, the secrets of the past invade the present in devious ways.

The power of this shattering novel resides in Greenidge's undeniable storytelling talents. What appears to be a story of mothers and daughters, of sisterhood put to the test, of adolescent love and grown-up misconduct, and of history's long reach, becomes a provocative and compelling exploration of America's failure to find a language to talk about race.

A magnificently textured, vital, visceral feat of storytelling . . . [by] a sharp, poignant, extraordinary new voice of American literature. --Téa Obreht, author of The Tiger's Wife

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