6/20/2023 0 Comments Kaitlyn greenidge libertie![]() ![]() ![]() There is a mystic heaviness to Libertie's language - her speech, her writing, her thoughts - and Greenidge structures the novel in sections hinging on significant plot points: the death of a patient, the founding of a hospital, traveling to college, getting married and giving birth. When Libertie leaves for college at her mother's behest, she decides, "I would banish her from the very recesses of my heart." Heartbroken, Ben eventually drowns himself, and this loss convinces Libertie that love is too costly she wants neither Ben Daisy's fate nor her mother's. Neither Libertie nor Cathy can forget Cathy's failure to save a man known as Ben Daisy - the "Daisy" borne of his incessant ramblings for a lost love. … Their need was monstrous." Greenidge's prose is at its best when these visceral moments extend into understated metaphor. ![]() In the opening pages, the child regards her mother with a worshipful gaze, and it is something of a relief to watch Libertie feel revulsion as she feeds her mother's cats: "The smell of their food made me ill, not because it was putrefying but because of how much it made them want me, made then mimic the action of love to get it. ![]()
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