{"product_id":"we-love-you-charlie-freeman-a-novel","title":"We Love You, Charlie Freeman: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eA FINALIST FOR THE 2016 CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE AND THE 2017 YOUNG LIONS AWARD\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A terrifically auspicious debut.” —Janet Maslin, The New York Times\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Smart, timely and powerful . . . A rich examination of America’s treatment of race, and the ways we attempt to discuss and confront it today.” —The Huffington Post\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Freeman family--Charles, Laurel, and their daughters, teenage Charlotte and nine-year-old Callie--have been invited to the Toneybee Institute 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 because they know sign language; they are supposed to teach it to Charlie and welcome him as a member of their family. But when Charlotte discovers the truth about the institute’s history of questionable studies, the secrets of the past invade the present in devious ways.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe power of this shattering novel resides in 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A magnificently textured, vital, visceral feat of storytelling . . . [by] a sharp, poignant, extraordinary new voice of American literature.” —Téa Obreht, author of The Tiger’s Wife\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Stacks Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55273779659043,"sku":"9781616206444","price":12.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0977\/1014\/5827\/files\/9781616206444.jpg?v=1782230104","url":"https:\/\/thestacksbookshop.com\/products\/we-love-you-charlie-freeman-a-novel","provider":"The Stacks Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}