Kaitlyn Greenidge
1) Libertie
Author
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Coming of age as a free-born Black girl in Reconstruction-era Brooklyn, Libertie Sampson is all too aware that her mother, a physician, has a vision for their future together: Libertie will go to medical school and practice alongside her. But Libertie feels stifled by her mother's choices and is constantly reminded that, unlike her mother, Libertie has skin that is too dark. When a young man from Haiti proposes to Libertie and promises she will be...
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
This work presents twenty-three "essays brimming with insight and emotional truth. From a writer turning to an AI language enerator to write about her sister's death, to a son grappling with the memory of his abusive mother, to a pilgrim walking in the shadow of a missing woman, these selections interrogate the past and illuminate the present." --back cover