Life is difficult enough being a dark-skinned freeborn Black girl in Reconstruction-era Brooklyn, but Libertie Sampson feels suffocated by her mother's hopes of her becoming a physician and joining her practice. But Libertie has dreams of her own, ones that involve music rather than medicine. So when a young man from Haiti proposes to Libertie and promises she will be his equal on the island, she jumps at the chance for freedom to live life on her own terms. But when she arrives, she finds herself just as contained as she was in the Brooklyn and Haiti is not the paradise she imagined. Soon, she begins questioning her decision to give up the potential for a more independent life alongside her mother in Brooklyn and looks for a way to truly be free.
Audience
9-Adult.
System Details
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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Description based on book record and eBook viewed on March 31, 2021.
