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We Love You, Charlie Freeman by Kaitlyn Greenidge
3.0
I already knew what to expect when I started reading "We Love You, Charlie Freeman."
This debut novel by Kaitlyn Greenidge follows the Freeman family as they integrate an abandoned chimpanzee into their lives, and teach him sign language at the Toneybee Institute for Ape Research.
The two human Freeman children, Charlotte and Callie, learn to adjust to their new “brother” and their predominately white surroundings as the twisted history of Toneybee comes to light.
Any aware American could guess at the plotline in a book about black people, monkeys and a predominately white town due to America’s history of experimenting on minorities without consent.
I enjoyed the writing and I loved the characters, however, I didn’t feel like there was any heartfelt call to action in regard to the historical practice of secretly experimenting on others to further scientific discovery. “We Love You, Charlie Freeman” would have felt more complete with a few hundred more pages, but I look forward to more from Greenidge.
This debut novel by Kaitlyn Greenidge follows the Freeman family as they integrate an abandoned chimpanzee into their lives, and teach him sign language at the Toneybee Institute for Ape Research.
The two human Freeman children, Charlotte and Callie, learn to adjust to their new “brother” and their predominately white surroundings as the twisted history of Toneybee comes to light.
Any aware American could guess at the plotline in a book about black people, monkeys and a predominately white town due to America’s history of experimenting on minorities without consent.
I enjoyed the writing and I loved the characters, however, I didn’t feel like there was any heartfelt call to action in regard to the historical practice of secretly experimenting on others to further scientific discovery. “We Love You, Charlie Freeman” would have felt more complete with a few hundred more pages, but I look forward to more from Greenidge.