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We Love You, Charlie Freeman - A Novel (Paperback)
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We Love You, Charlie Freeman - A Novel (Paperback)
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Loot Price R401
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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." --Tea Obreht, author of The Tiger's Wife
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