Kaitlyn Greenidge tisse des récits qui explorent les complexités des liens familiaux et des identités culturelles, souvent à travers des personnages aux multiples facettes qui naviguent dans leur passé. Son écriture se caractérise par une prose lyrique et une profonde perspicacité psychologique, entraînant les lecteurs dans les mondes intimes de ses personnages. Greenidge explore les thèmes de l'héritage, de l'appartenance et de la recherche de sa place dans le monde. Sa maîtrise de la narration offre une expérience de lecture immersive et stimulante.
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.
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