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Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction 2022 A NEW
YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2021 LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 PEN AMERICA
OPEN BOOK AWARD A Times Book of the Month One of Roxane Gay's
Audacious Book Club Picks 'A feat of monumental thematic
imagination' - The New York Times Book Review 'An elegantly
layered, beautifully rendered tour de force that is not to be
missed' - Roxane Gay Libertie Sampson was named by her father as he
lay dying, in honour of the bright, shining future he was sure was
coming. The only daughter of a prosperous Black woman physician,
she was born free in a country still blighted by slavery. But she
has never felt free. Shrinking from her mother's ambitions for her
future, Libertie ventures beyond her insulated community, hoping
that somehow, somewhere, she will create a life that feels like her
own. Immersive, lyrical and deeply moving, Libertie is a novel
about legacy and longing, the story of a young woman struggling to
discover what freedom truly means - for herself, and for
generations to come.
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2021 * LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 PEN
AMERICA OPEN BOOK AWARD A Times Book of the Month One of Roxane
Gay's Audacious Book Club Picks 'A feat of monumental thematic
imagination' - The New York Times Coming of age as a free-born
Black girl in Brooklyn after the Civil War, Libertie Sampson was
all too aware that her purposeful mother, a practicing physician,
had a vision for their future together: Libertie would go to
medical school and practice alongside her. But Libertie, drawn more
to music than science, feels stifled by her mother's choices and is
hungry for something else - is there really only one way to have an
autonomous life? And she is constantly reminded that, unlike her
mother who can pass, Libertie has skin that is too dark. When a
young man from Haiti proposes to Libertie and promises she will be
his equal on the island, she accepts, only to discover that she is
still subordinate to him and all men. As she tries to parse what
freedom actually means for a Black woman, Libertie struggles with
where she might find it - for herself and for generations to come.
'A soaring exploration of what "freedom" truly means ... an
elegantly layered, beautifully rendered tour de force that is not
to be missed' - Roxane Gay
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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Libertie (Paperback)
Kaitlyn Greenidge
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R463
R359
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The Narrows (Paperback)
Ann Petry; Introduction by Kaitlyn Greenidge
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R279
Discovery Miles 2 790
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BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE STREET With a new introduction by
Kaitlyn Greenidge, author of Libertie 'Petry is the writer we have
been waiting for, hers are the stories we need to fully illuminate
the questions of our moment . . . insightful, prescient and
unputdownable . . . The Narrows is the story of an interracial
romance that proves that passion and prejudice are not mutually
exclusive' Tayari Jones It's Saturday, past midnight, and thick fog
rolls in from the river like smoke. Link Williams is standing on
the dock when he hears quick footsteps approaching, and the gasp of
a woman too terrified to scream. After chasing off her pursuer, he
takes the woman to a nearby bar to calm her nerves, and as they
enter, it's as if the oxygen has left the room: they, and the other
patrons, see in the dim light that he's Black and she's white. Link
is a brilliant Dartmouth graduate, former athlete and soldier who,
because of the lack of opportunities available to him, tends bar;
Camilo is a wealthy, married heiress who has crossed the town's
racial divide to relieve the tedium of her privileged life. Brought
together by chance, Link and Camilo draw each other into furtive
encounters that violate the rigid and uncompromising social codes
of their times. 'Petry will always feel on time. Her kind of talent
will always feel startling and sui generis. . . . Her work endures
not only because it illuminates reality, but because it harnesses
the power of fiction to supplant it' Parul Seghal, New York Times
'The Street and The Narrows are masterpieces of social realism . .
. . [Petry's] writing transcends comparisons. It's volatile but
exacting, heartbreaking but often brutally funny. Labels don't
stick to it' Wall Street Journal
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Passing (Paperback, New Ed)
Nella Larsen; Introduction by Kaitlyn Greenidge
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R378
R292
Discovery Miles 2 920
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First published to critical acclaim in 1929, Passing firmly established Nella Larsen's prominence among women writers of the Harlem Renaissance. The Modern Library is proud to present Passing—an electrifying story of two women who cross the color line in 1920s New York—together with a new Introduction by the Obie Award- winning playwright and novelist Ntozake Shange.
Irene Redfield, the novel's protagonist, is a woman with an enviable life. She and her husband, Brian, a prominent physician, share a comfortable Harlem town house with their sons. Her work arranging charity balls that gather Harlem's elite creates a sense of purpose and respectability for Irene. But her hold on this world begins to slip the day she encounters Clare Kendry, a childhood friend with whom she had lost touch. Clare—light-skinned, beautiful, and charming—tells Irene how, after her father's death, she left behind the black neighborhood of her adolescence and began passing for white, hiding her true identity from everyone, including her racist husband. As Clare begins inserting herself into Irene's life, Irene is thrown into a panic, terrified of the consequences of Clare's dangerous behavior. And when Clare witnesses the vibrancy and energy of the community she left behind, her burning desire to come back threatens to shatter her careful deception.
Brilliantly plotted and elegantly written, Passing offers a gripping psychological portrait of emotional extremity. The New York Times Book Review called Larsen "adroit at tracing the involved processes of a mind divided against itself, that fights between the dictates of reason and desire." The Saturday Review of Literature said, "[Larsen] has produced a work so fine, sensitive, and distinguished that it rises above race categories and becomes that rare object, a good novel."
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