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'Libertie' Review: A Daughter Struggles To Escape Her Mother's Shadow : NPR


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TERRY GROSS, HOST:
This is FRESH AIR. A research study involving a chimpanzee raised in a Black family was the subject of the 2016 novel We Love You, Charlie Freeman by Kaitlyn Greenidge. Her second novel, Libertie, which was just published, is a foray into historical fiction. Greenidge is a contributing writer for The New York Times. Our book critic Maureen Corrigan has this review of Libertie.
MAUREEN CORRIGAN, BYLINE: Libertie, a new novel by Kaitlyn Greenidge, is inspired by the life of Susan Smith McKinney Steward, the third African American woman to earn a medical degree in this country. After the Civil War, Dr. McKinney Steward opened her own practice in Brooklyn and co-founded the Brooklyn Women s Homoeopathic Hospital and Dispensary. Dr. McKinney Steward was an exceptional woman, a pioneer. But of course, it can be hard living in the shadow of such a path breaker, especially when you yourself are drawn to the simpler pleasures of the conve ....

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