‘Libertie’ imagines the whole of a Black girl’s self-determination
What does it mean to be free? Is freedom an individual pursuit or does it require the collective imagination to bring it into being?
“Libertie” follows Kaitlyn Greenidge’s first book, “We Love You Charlie Freeman,” the story of a Black family living in 1990s Massachusetts as they foster a chimp for a research project and teach it to use sign language. In “Libertie,” she crafts a different, yet familiar, world – a world on the cusp of
