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We Love You…Well, Some of Us Do

We Love You, Charlie Freeman by Kaitlyn Greenidge

March 20, 2020 by AnnaCollier Leave a Comment

Is there anything more satisfying than finding someone who shares your unpopular opinions?  I’ll get to We Love You, Charlie Freeman in just a bit, but let me back up for a minute.  About a year ago, I read Miriam Toews’s All My Puny Sorrows and fell in love with it.  All My Puny Sorrows is so beautiful and funny and tragic, and the characters feel both universal and totally unique at the same time. I loved the book so much that as soon as I […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Kaitlyn Greenidge

AnnaCollier's CBR12 Review No:4 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Kaitlyn Greenidge ·
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An Embarrassment of Riches in a Debut Novel

April 3, 2016 by ElCicco 1 Comment

I’m not sure there could be a better time than now for this impressive debut novel from Kaitlyn Greenidge. She addresses racism, white privilege, female relationships, family strife, and loneliness in a novel that centers around a scientific experiment spanning some 60 years. Greenidge’s narrators are four African American girls and women who are intelligent but alone and lonely. Each is searching for a missing connection, for a love that has been missing and might even be considered forbidden or unnatural; each has felt alienation […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: CBR8, ElCicco, Fiction, Kaitlyn Greenidge, Race, ReadWomen, We Love You Charlie Freeman

ElCicco's CBR8 Review No:17 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: CBR8, ElCicco, Fiction, Kaitlyn Greenidge, Race, ReadWomen, We Love You Charlie Freeman ·
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