![]() ![]() Her debut novel, We Love You, Charlie Freeman (Algonquin, 2016), which dissects the legacy of institutionalized racism, was a New York Public Library’s Young Lions Award finalist and shortlisted for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize. Greenidge has an MFA from Hunter College and is the recipient of a Whiting Award, a Radcliffe Institute Fellowship, a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. Greenidge’s novel interrogates ideas of motherhood, romantic love, generational healing, and Black liberation and asks the universal question, “Is there really only one way to have an autonomous life?” ![]() Published on March 30 by Algonquin Books, Libertie follows Libertie Sampson, a freeborn Black girl in Reconstruction-era Brooklyn, whose doctor mother expects her to practice alongside her, but who yearns for a future fully her own. Based in part on the life of one of the first Black female doctors in the US, the second novel by Kaitlyn Greenidge offers a deeply felt, meticulously researched exploration of our country’s troubled racial history that has given birth to our tumultuous racial present. ![]()
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