Kaitlyn Greenidge’s debut novel, We Love You, Charlie Freeman, was one of the New York Times Critics’ Top 10 Books of 2016 and a finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. She is a contributing writer for the New York Times, and her writing has also appeared in Vogue, Glamour, the Wall Street Journal, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University’s Lewis Center for the Arts, as well as fellowships from the Whiting Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, Substack, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

Praise for Libertie

Praise for Libertie

“Pure brilliance. So much will be written about Kaitlyn Greenidge’s Libertie—how it blends history and magic into a new kind of telling, how it spins the past to draw deft circles around our present—but none of it will measure up to the singular joy of reading this book.” —Mira Jacob, author of Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations

“Sweeping, engrossing.” —O, The Oprah Magazine

“Libertie is a feat of monumental thematic imagination . . . Greenidge both mines history and transcends time, centering her post-Civil-War New York story around an enduring quest for freedom . . . The sheer force of Greenidge’s vision for [Libertie], for us all, gives us hope that it won’t be long now.” —Margaret Wilkerson Sexton, The New York Times Book Review

“An elegantly layered, beautifully rendered tour de force that is not to be missed.” —Roxane Gay

“I want to say that Kaitlyn Greenidge’s Libertie is a glorious diasporic literary song, but the novel is so much more than that. A book so deeply invested in the politics and place of silence is one of the most melodious books I’ve read in decades. The ambition in Libertie is only exceeded by Greenidge’s skill. This is it.” —Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy

“Transfixing . . . [Greenidge] generate[s] a tension in the narrative of this fine novel and in us readers, too—between the residual currents of cruelties and compromises, and the emergent one of a more humane future that only yet more struggle might hope to bring about.” —Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air

“From the first page, Greenidge catapults us into a masterfully crafted story in which the possibilities, limitations and shifting contours of freedom for Black people take center stage . . . A fiercely gorgeous, complex portrait of life for Black women during the Reconstruction era . . . Greenidge perfectly weds the precision of historical details and context with fantastical elements of myth and magic to illuminate the enduring questions: What does freedom mean for Black girls and women? What does it look, smell, feel, sound and taste like? Libertie is a beautifully written meditation on Black liberation and imagination.” —Ms. magazine

“This is one of the most thoughtful and amazingly beautiful books I’ve read all year. Kaitlyn Greenidge is a master storyteller.” —Jacqueline Woodson, author of Red at the Bone

“Spectacular . . . A revelatory and enchanting piece of historical fiction.” —BuzzFeed