TY  - BOOK
AU  - Greenidge, Kaitlyn,
TI  - Libertie
SN  - 9781788169011
U1  - 813.6 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - London : 
PB  - Serpent's Tail, 
KW  - Self-realization in women
KW  - Fiction
KW  - African American women
KW  - Mothers and daughters
KW  - Women physicians
KW  - Marriage
KW  - Race relations
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Man-woman relationships
KW  - Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
KW  - History
KW  - Haiti
KW  - Bildungsromans
KW  - fast
KW  - Historical fiction
N1  - First published in the US in 2021 by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
N2  - 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
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