Let Me Liberate You
A Novel
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“A satire of class, race, and savior complexes.” —Kirkus Reviews
“Original, clever, imaginative, satirical, and memorable…Let Me Liberate You is exceptional and unreservedly recommended.” —Midwest Book Review
“A wild ride that kept me turning pages. Barbados and its culture are richly drawn with Davis’s deft wit, as is the fascinating cast that populates this astute debut. Sabre Cumberbatch—charmed and hapless by turn, always well intentioned—flees New York, the land of her artistic fame, and returns to her childhood home of Barbados with the simple aim of finding herself. Sabre is anything but simple, however, and it isn’t long before her magnetism and ambition provide a spark to an island that is primed to ignite.” —C. J. Washington, author of Imperfect Lives
“A fun and timely lens on contemporary Barbados. It is impossible to visit the Caribbean and not bear witness to the damage done by colonialism. What is our capacity to dismantle these structural vestiges? Reading this deceptively breezy novel, I felt for Sabre as she struggled to come up with the right answers—she certainly was asking the right questions.” —Stephanie Black, filmmaker, Life and Debt
“Delightful. They say you can't go home again but Let Me Liberate You is an entertaining, brutally honest, and tender look at one woman's attempt to do so. In Let Me Liberate You, Andie Davis delivers social satire in a refreshingly different setting, taking on race, colorism, and class amid gentrification and family drama in Barbados.” —Charmaine Wilkerson, author of Black Cake
“Let Me Liberate You is a satirical romp through the soft underbelly of bourgeois Barbadian society. With incisive wit and sparkling metaphor, it exposes the hypocrisy and hilarity of life in the corridors of class-conscious Bim, and asks pertinent questions about what it means to be an authentic, aware and altruistic human being in Barbados and the wider world today.” —Cherie Jones, author of How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House
“With Let Me Liberate You, Andie Davis has pulled off a dazzling feat of storytelling, featuring Sabre, an accidental artistic genius-turned-inadvertent Bajan activist searching for purpose in an IG-obsessed world. Told hilariously through multiple perspectives, Sabre’s misadventures had me laughing my ass off while also thinking deeply about the inequities and absurdities Davis skewers so cleverly. From the brilliantly drawn cast of characters to the gratifying twists, I absolutely loved this book! A rollicking read and a phenomenal debut.” —Deesha Philyaw, author of The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
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A restless New York artist searching for purpose returns to Barbados and stumbles into the role of activist in this scathingly funny and brilliantly observed satire about privilege, family discord, and performative do-gooding.
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A restless New York artist searching for purpose returns to Barbados and stumbles into the role of activist in this scathingly funny and brilliantly observed satire about privilege, family discord, and performative do-gooding.
Dark, lanky, and bald, New York–raised photographer Sabre Cumberbatch can’t tell if she’s highly talented or just highly Instagrammable. Up to here with art critics and their gaseous praise, Sabre returns to Barbados, her childhood island home, to water her roots. She needs to quell self-doubt by doing something—anything—profoundly important.
Welcoming her with bejeweled open arms is her aunt Aggie, a fearsome high-society attorney eager to show off her famous American niece. When Sabre witnesses Aggie unleash her wrath on the household staff over a minor mistake, Sabre finds her cause. During an interview for a puff piece about art, Sabre goes off-script and takes a righteous stand against the tyranny of the ruling class—starting with Aggie.
Overnight, Sabre throws her family and an entire island into chaos. How many ways can the best intentions go wrong? They’re racking up. But tingling with purpose, Sabre is counting on the ways they just might go right.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Little A
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9781662515644
- Utgivelsesår
- 2024
- Format
- 22 x 15 cm
Om forfatteren
Andie Davis’s curiosity about other people’s lives inspired her love for languages and her travels around the world. Born in Montserrat, Davis grew up in Barbados before moving with her family to the US, where she attended Howard University and Harvard Law School. She works as a global development advisor focused on sustainability. She lives in New York City.
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“A satire of class, race, and savior complexes.” —Kirkus Reviews
“Original, clever, imaginative, satirical, and memorable…Let Me Liberate You is exceptional and unreservedly recommended.” —Midwest Book Review
“A wild ride that kept me turning pages. Barbados and its culture are richly drawn with Davis’s deft wit, as is the fascinating cast that populates this astute debut. Sabre Cumberbatch—charmed and hapless by turn, always well intentioned—flees New York, the land of her artistic fame, and returns to her childhood home of Barbados with the simple aim of finding herself. Sabre is anything but simple, however, and it isn’t long before her magnetism and ambition provide a spark to an island that is primed to ignite.” —C. J. Washington, author of Imperfect Lives
“A fun and timely lens on contemporary Barbados. It is impossible to visit the Caribbean and not bear witness to the damage done by colonialism. What is our capacity to dismantle these structural vestiges? Reading this deceptively breezy novel, I felt for Sabre as she struggled to come up with the right answers—she certainly was asking the right questions.” —Stephanie Black, filmmaker, Life and Debt
“Delightful. They say you can't go home again but Let Me Liberate You is an entertaining, brutally honest, and tender look at one woman's attempt to do so. In Let Me Liberate You, Andie Davis delivers social satire in a refreshingly different setting, taking on race, colorism, and class amid gentrification and family drama in Barbados.” —Charmaine Wilkerson, author of Black Cake
“Let Me Liberate You is a satirical romp through the soft underbelly of bourgeois Barbadian society. With incisive wit and sparkling metaphor, it exposes the hypocrisy and hilarity of life in the corridors of class-conscious Bim, and asks pertinent questions about what it means to be an authentic, aware and altruistic human being in Barbados and the wider world today.” —Cherie Jones, author of How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House
“With Let Me Liberate You, Andie Davis has pulled off a dazzling feat of storytelling, featuring Sabre, an accidental artistic genius-turned-inadvertent Bajan activist searching for purpose in an IG-obsessed world. Told hilariously through multiple perspectives, Sabre’s misadventures had me laughing my ass off while also thinking deeply about the inequities and absurdities Davis skewers so cleverly. From the brilliantly drawn cast of characters to the gratifying twists, I absolutely loved this book! A rollicking read and a phenomenal debut.” —Deesha Philyaw, author of The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
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