மகிநீ பணிப்பெண் News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Stay updated with breaking news from மகிநீ பணிப்பெண். Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.

Top News In மகிநீ பணிப்பெண் Today - Breaking & Trending Today

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


Embed

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 ....

New York , United States , Israel General , Thea Chaloner , Christian Palestinian , Phyllis Myers , Adam Staniszewski , Seth Kelley , Sam Briger , Ann Marie Baldonado , Maureen Corrigan , Muslim Palestinian , Kaitlyn Greenidge , Roberta Shorrock , Molly Seavy Nesper , Audrey Bentham , Terry Gross , Susan Smith Mckinney , Charlie Freeman , Kayla Lattimore , Danny Miller , Lauren Krenzel , Heidi Saman , Therese Madden , Reem Kassis , Amy Salit ,

Author Interview - Kaitlyn Greenidge, author of Libertie


For the author of
We Love You, Charlie Freeman, writing is as much an adventure of discovering new history as it is an act of creative expression.
The legacy of medicine, trauma, motherhood and marriage in Black American communities provides the groundwork for Kaitlyn Greenidge’s second novel,
Libertie, an engrossing study of a headstrong mother and her equally headstrong daughter. Speaking by phone from Westborough, Massachusetts, Greenidge discusses her novel’s deep roots in history and the literary traditions created by Toni Morrison, whom she describes as “the mother of everything.”
Libertie was inspired by the true story of Dr. Susan Smith McKinney Steward, who in 1869 became the first Black female doctor in New York. She also co-founded the Brooklyn Women’s Homeopathic Hospital and Dispensary at a time when homeopathy was considered state-of-the-art medicine. Greenidge learned about Dr. McKinney Steward and her family while working at the Weeksvil ....

New York , United States , Crown Heights , Susan Smith Mckinney , Kathy Sampson , Charlie Freeman , Kaitlyn Greenidge , Toni Morrison , Weeksville Heritage Center , Love You , Black American , Susan Smith Mckinney Steward , Brooklyn Women , Homeopathic Hospital , Mckinney Steward , African American , With Libertie , Underground Railroad , புதியது யார்க் , ஒன்றுபட்டது மாநிலங்களில் , கிரீடம் உயரங்கள் , சூசன் ஸ்மித் மகிநீ , கத்தி ஸ்யாஂப்ஸந் , சார்லி ஃப்ரீமேன் , டோனி மோரிசன் , வாரங்கள்வில் பாரம்பரியம் மையம் ,