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Algonquin
March 2016
On Sale: March 8, 2016
Featuring: Charles Freeman; Laurel Freeman; Charlotte Freeman
228 pages
ISBN: 1616204672
EAN: 9781616204679
Kindle: B013JBH96Y
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Contemporary | Women's Fiction | Multicultural Mystery
The Freeman family--Charles, Laurel, and their daughters,
teenage Charlotte and nine-year-old Callie--have been
invited to the Toneybee Institute in rural Massachusetts to
participate in a research experiment. They will live in an
apartment on campus with Charlie, a young chimp abandoned by
his mother. The Freemans were selected for the experiment
because they know sign language; they are supposed to teach
it to Charlie and welcome him as a member of their family. Isolated in their new, nearly all-white community not just
by their race but by their strange living situation, the
Freemans come undone. And when Charlotte discovers the truth
about the Institute’s history of questionable studies, the
secrets of the past begin to invade the present. The power of this novel resides in Kaitlyn Greenidge’s
undeniable storytelling talents. What appears to be a story
of mothers and daughters, of sisterhood put to the test, of
adolescent love and grown-up misconduct, and of history’s
long reach, becomes a provocative and compelling exploration
of America’s failure to find a language to talk about race.
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