We Love You, Charlie Freeman (Hardcover) by Kaitlyn Greenidge

from EllsbethB

This is an intriguing read on family and race, with a bit of history thrown in. While it is challenging to figure out where this story is going, there is an underlying feeling that something devastating may happen. This feeling kept me turning the page. At times I was frustrated with this story a...

from strongstuff

There's lots to mull over in this book and it would probably make a great choice for a book club discussion. The Freemans, a black family from Boston, move to an institute in the Massachusetts countryside to participate in an experiment where they teach sign language to a chimpanzee that lives wi...

from lucybrown

We Love You Charlie Freeman is one of the strangest coming of age books to come along. A very difficult book to really like, but not to admire. The book stinks and roils with discontent and frustrated muteness that is never resolved. To watch a family implode as it serves one members overweening ...

from Othemts

This book is difficult to describe in a few sentences. The Freeman family moves from Dorchester to a rural town in Western Massachusetts where they will live in an apartment at the Toneybee Research Institute with a chimpanzee named Charlie. They are part of an experiment to teach a chimpanzee to...

from froxgirl

This is at least the second book about adding chimpanzees to your family that have been recently highly recommended. I am chimp-adverse but the author's sister is one of my favorite playwrights, so I had to give it a try. There are multiple themes: black family life, the sometimes fraught ties of...