We Love You, Charlie Freeman, Kaitlyn Greenidge
We Love You, Charlie Freeman, Kaitlyn Greenidge
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We Love You, Charlie Freeman

Author: Kaitlyn Greenidge

Narrator: Myra Lucretia Taylor, Karole Foreman, Cherise Boothe

Unabridged: 10 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 03/08/2016


Synopsis

Frustrated by the limitations of cross-race communication in her predominantly white town, a young African-American girl teaches herself to sign. Years later, Laurel uproots her husband and daughters from their downwardly-mobile, over-educated and underpaid life in the South End of Boston for Cortland County, Massachusetts. The Freemans are to take part in an experiment: they've been hired by a private research institute to teach sign language to a chimpanzee. Told primarily from the point of view of Laurel's elder daughter, Charlotte, the novel shifts in time from the early 1990s to the founding of the Institute in the 1930s to the present day. With language both beautiful and accessible, Greenidge examines that time in each person's life when we realize the things we thought were normal may be anything but.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jessica on March 09, 2016

Do not be fooled by this warm and fuzzy title. This is an amazing mess of a book. It does not hold your hand and talk sweetly to you while you walk a well-trodden path. It is running out ahead of you through dense jungle and you aren't sure you can keep up, oh and you have no idea where it is you're......more

Goodreads review by Candi on September 08, 2016

This debut novel has a very intriguing premise, that of a family chosen to teach sign language to a chimpanzee. Not only were the Freemans tasked with teaching Charlie sign language, they were also responsible for accepting Charlie as a member of their own family. In order to accomplish this underta......more

Goodreads review by Nnenna | notesbynnenna on August 13, 2020

3.5 stars I’ve been meaning to read this book since the beginning of this year and I’m so glad I finally got around to it. The Freeman family has been selected by the Tonybee Institute for a unique opportunity. They will adopt a chimpanzee into their family, treat him like a family member and teach h......more