![]() ![]() ![]() Through Libertie’s eyes, we learn not just about her community’s inhabitants, but about the forces of nature – plants, the ocean, weather patterns – that shape lives, often continuing to make meaning after great loss. "Libertie’s" greatest success is the perceptive, poetic voice of its central character. Sampson isn’t easy for a daughter, and soon Libertie chafes at the expectations of her brilliant mother. Instead of medicine, Libertie is drawn to music, to a handsome well-born doctor from Haiti, and to life outside her mother’s influence. The novel begins with magic and a childlike reverence Libertie’s mother, Dr. Libertie was born free, but she knows that freedom is complicated. Libertie’s mother is a doctor, and the resurrection she has just witnessed is, in fact, an escape, the dead man merely drugged and smuggled North in a coffin. Spring books guide: 20 books we can’t wait to read by Brandi Carlile, Seth Rogen and moreīut growing up with the intense Dr. This is the first line of Greenidge’s second novel and the first words we hear from the novel’s eponymous heroine. Sampson to found a hospital for her community. Libertie is electrified by the power of their planning: “I have never in my life felt anything as powerful as whatever force was in that room while those women talked.” ![]() At her mother’s side, Libertie learns how to heal the sick using herbs such as yarrow, bitterwood and datura. In one unforgettable scene, the women of the town rush to the waterfront to take in brutalized Black children who have escaped the notorious Manhattan draft riots of the summer of 1863. This fuels Dr. ![]()
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