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25%OFFKaitlyn Greenidge - We Love You, Charlie Freeman - 9781616206444 - V9781616206444
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We Love You, Charlie Freeman

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Description for We Love You, Charlie Freeman Paperback. This shattering novel is filled with storytelling sleight of hand. 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. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 211 x 38. Weight in Grams: 360.
A FINALIST FOR THE 2016 CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE AND THE 2017 YOUNG LIONS AWARD 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 ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Algonquin Books (division of Workman)
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
360g
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781616206444
SKU
V9781616206444
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About Kaitlyn Greenidge
Kaitlyn Greenidge received her MFA from Hunter College, where she studied with Nathan Englander and Peter Carey, and was Colson Whitehead's writing assistant as part of the Hertog Research Fellowship. Greenidge was the recipient of the Bernard Cohen Short Story Prize. She was a Bread Loaf scholar, a Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace artist-in-residence, and a Johnson State College visiting ... Read more

Reviews for We Love You, Charlie Freeman
Terrifically auspicious . . . Ms. Greenidge has charted an ambitious course for a book that begins so mock-innocently. And she lets the suspicion and outrage mount as the Freemans' true situation unfolds. This author is also a historian, and she makes the '1929' on Toneybee plaque tell another, equally gripping story that strongly parallels the Freemans' 1990 experience. ... Read more

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