When an author confronts a pervasive issue in her writing, it’s often most evocative for her to employ a supernatural element: A misty fog hanging over a medieval land, representing collective memory and forgetting; a curse as a stand-in for a dictator’s power. In her debut novel We Love You, Charlie Freeman, Kaitlyn Greenidge uses a silent language to discuss the way Americans talk about race, and how insufficient our conversations often are. The story centers on the Freeman family -- a cre...
The Bottom Line: 'We Love You, Charlie Freeman' By Kaitlyn Greenidge
The Huffington Post - 10 Mar 2016 22:42
When an author confronts a pervasive issue in her writing, it’s often most evocative for her to employ a supernatural element: A misty fog hanging over a medieval land, representing collective memory and forgetting; a curse as a stand-in for a dictator’s power. In her debut novel We Love You, Charlie Freeman, Kaitlyn Greenidge uses a silent language to discuss the way Americans talk about race, and how insufficient our conversations often are. The story centers on the Freeman family -- a cre...
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