We Love You, Charlie Freeman-我们爱你，查理·弗里曼

作者：Greenidge Kaitlyn

书名：We Love You, Charlie Freeman《我们爱你，查理·弗里曼》

中文简介：小说《我们爱你，查理弗里曼》是凯特琳·格林尼治的处女作品，描述了这样一个故事：一个美籍非洲裔家庭被英国一个研究协会邀请去参加教大猩猩手语的实验。本文巧妙而幽默地审视了美国那个时候的历史、种族和语言问题。

英文简介：The Freeman family--Charles, Laurel, and their daughters, teenage Charlotte and nine-year-old Callie--have been invited to the Toneybee Institute to participate in a research experiment. They will live in an apartment on campus with Charlie, a young chimp abandoned by his mother. The Freemans were selected because they know sign language; they are supposed to teach it to Charlie and welcome him as a member of their family. But when Charlotte discovers the truth about the institute’s history of questionable studies, the secrets of the past invade the present in devious ways.  

The power of this shattering novel resides in Greenidge’s undeniable storytelling talents. What appears to be a story of mothers and daughters, of sisterhood put to the test, of adolescent love and grown-up misconduct, and of history’s long reach, becomes a provocative and compelling exploration of America’s failure to find a language to talk about race.