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For the week of June 7
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For those of you who were unable to join the live conversation with our book club authors, the videos of our conversations with Dantiel W. Moniz and Ka…
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Many years ago, I had a micropress called Tiny Hardcore Press. I published small but mighty books that could fit in your pocket or purse. There was a s…
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Libertie Discussion (5)Greenidge’s book makes use of a lot of letters between Libertie and her mother—epistolary narrative. What texts does this remind you of? What ot…
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Libertie Discussion (4)Early in the novel, Libertie lay on her father’s grave and imagined the freedom he got from death. She thinks about what freedom means to her. A…
Kaitlyn Adams
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Libertie Discussion (3)In her introduction to Color Matters: Skin Tone Bias and The Myth of a Post-Racial America, Kimberly Jade Norwood talks about how there is a “co…
Megan Pillow
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Libertie Discussion (2)As Libertie’s mama and the women of their town plan for the hospital, Libertie thinks: How strange it was to sit around them, at their feet or i…
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Libertie Open ThreadLibertie is a novel about so many things—mothers and daughters, ambition, defiance, colorism, marriage, freedom, and home. What stood out to you…
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