A review by shogins
We Love You, Charlie Freeman by Kaitlyn Greenidge

3.0

This book looked like just another book about an experiment where a chimp joins a family, but the chimp brother – the titular Charlie – is almost beside the point. This is really a book about family, and how we often see what we want from others, rather than what’s actually there. It’s also a book about race, and America’s long and horrible history of racist experimentation and dehumanization. It’s also a story about young desire, and not fitting in, and longing for the wild. This is Greenidge’s debut novel, and it makes me very curious about what else she has to say.

But also, seriously, how many books about chimps joining human families do we really need???