Libertie

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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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Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction 2022A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2021 LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 PEN AMERICA OPEN BOOK AWARD A Times Book of the MonthOne of Roxane Gay’s Audacious Book Club Picks’A feat of monumental thematic imagination’ – The New York Times Book Review’An elegantly layered, beautifully rendered tour de force that is not to be missed’ – Roxane GayLibertie Sampson was named by her father as he lay dying, in honour of the bright, shining future he was sure was coming. The only daughter of a prosperous Black woman physician, she was born free in a country still blighted by slavery. But she has never felt free. 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.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.

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Weight 260 g
Dimensions 19.8 × 12.8 × 2.4 cm
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Cover

Paperback
Pages

336
Language

English
Edition

1st paperback ed
Dewey

813.6 (edition:23)
Readership

General – Trade / Code: K

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