A Whiting Award-Winning Author
Coming of age as a free-born Black girl in Reconstruction-era Brooklyn, Libertie Sampson was all too aware that her purposeful mother, a practicing physician, had a vision for their future together: Libertie would go to medical school and practice alongside her as she feels stifled by her mothera�TMs choices and is hungry for something else? When a young man from Haiti proposes to Libertie and promises she will be his equal on the island, she accepts, only to discover that shea�TMs still subordinate to him and all men. As she tries to parse what freedom means for a Black woman, Libertie struggles with where she might find it a�" for herself and for generations to come.