I was drawn to the prevailing theme of motherhood and the mother-daughter relationships in these novels, especially since we see two instances of daughters examining and being in close proximity with the work their mothers have pride in. Kukuwa Ashun: In preparation for our chat today I revisited your debut novel We Love You Charlie Freeman, before reading Libertie. I spoke with Kaitlyn Greenidge about reimagining what freedom looks like and writing about a mother who gets to have wider world ambitions while still being a parent. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Glamour, The Believer, Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar-where she is currently the magazine’s features director-and other places. Kaitlyn Greenidge is a historian, writer, and the award-winning author of We Love You, Charlie Freeman. Yet the issues of colorism, gender roles, and creed continue to prevail in these collective sanctuaries. Greenidge deliberately moves readers from Weeksville-the free, working-class Black community in Central Brooklyn-to Jacmel, Haiti-the first free Black Republic-in order to recreate spaces for Black communities, by Black people.
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