Both epic and intimate - Alexandra Alter * The New York Times * Greenidge is making a stylistic leap with an intricately researched and lushly imagined coming-of-age story set in 19th-century Brooklyn and Jacmel, Haiti. * Publishers Weekly, starred and boxed review * This piece de resistance is so immaculately orchestrated that each character, each setting, and each sentence sings. Greenidge (We Love You, Charlie Freeman) delivers another genius work of radical historical fiction. Greenidge both mines history and transcends time - Margaret Wilkerson Sexton * New York Times Book Review * Libertie is an elegantly layered, beautifully rendered tour de force that is not to be missed - Roxane GayĪ feat of monumental thematic imagination. Kaitlyn Greenidge is good on the contradictions of freedom, and the persistent, sour legacy of slavery, but it is the mother-daughter relationship that makes this novel dazzle * The Times *Ī soaring exploration of what 'freedom' truly means. Greenidge mixes elements of both conventional historical fiction and magical realism into a satisfying and emotionally powerful brew * Sunday Times * Publisher: Profile Books Ltd ISBN: 9781788169028 Number of pages: 336 Weight: 260 g Dimensions: 198 x 128 x 24 mm Edition: Main MEDIA REVIEWS
Immersive, lyrical and deeply moving, Libertie is a novel about legacy and longing, the story of a young woman struggling to discover what freedom truly means - for herself, and for generations to come. Shrinking from her mother's ambitions for her future, Libertie ventures beyond her insulated community, hoping that somehow, somewhere, she will create a life that feels like her own. The only daughter of a prosperous Black woman physician, she was born free in a country still blighted by slavery. Libertie Sampson was named by her father as he lay dying, in honour of the bright, shining future he was sure was coming. 'An elegantly layered, beautifully rendered tour de force that is not to be missed' - Roxane Gay
'A feat of monumental thematic imagination' - The New York Times Book Review
One of Roxane Gay's Audacious Book Club Picks LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 PEN AMERICA OPEN BOOK AWARD Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction 2022
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