{"id":5144,"date":"2021-05-17T20:44:51","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T00:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=5144"},"modified":"2021-05-17T20:44:51","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T00:44:51","slug":"mailbox-monday-september-21st-2-2-3-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=5144","title":{"rendered":"Mailbox Monday – May 17th"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A big thank you to Marcia for originating Mailbox Monday<\/a>. In this weekly meme you share books which came into your home during the week. The first book is from the library and the second is from NetGalley. I follow Kaitlyn Greenridge on twitter who amplifies voices I don’t follow on my feed. And it just doesn’t seem like summer without a book from Jennifer Weiner.<\/p>\n

Here are the books I picked up this week:<\/p>\n

Libertie<\/strong> by Kaitlyn Greenridge –<\/p>\n

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The critically acclaimed and Whiting\u00c2\u00a0Award\u00e2\u20ac\u201cwinning author of\u00c2\u00a0We Love You,\u00c2\u00a0Charlie Freeman<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0<\/i>returns with\u00c2\u00a0Libertie<\/i>,\u00c2\u00a0an unforgettable story about one young Black\u00c2\u00a0girl\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s attempt to find a place where she can be\u00c2\u00a0fully, and only, herself.Coming of age in a free Black community in Reconstruction-era Brooklyn, Libertie Sampson\u00c2\u00a0is all too aware that her purposeful mother, a\u00c2\u00a0practicing physician, has a vision for their future\u00c2\u00a0together: Libertie is to go to medical school and\u00c2\u00a0practice alongside her. But Libertie, drawn more\u00c2\u00a0to music than science, feels stifled by her mother\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s\u00c2\u00a0choices and is hungry for something else\u00e2\u20ac\u201dis\u00c2\u00a0there really only one way to have an autonomous\u00c2\u00a0life? And she is constantly reminded that, unlike\u00c2\u00a0her light-skinned mother, Libertie will not be able to pass for white. When a young man from Haiti proposes\u00c2\u00a0to Libertie and promises she will be his equal on\u00c2\u00a0the island, she accepts, only to discover that she is\u00c2\u00a0still subordinate to him and all men. As she tries\u00c2\u00a0to parse what freedom actually means for a Black\u00c2\u00a0woman, Libertie struggles with where she might\u00c2\u00a0find it\u00e2\u20ac\u201dfor herself and for generations to come.<\/p>\n

Inspired by the life of one of the first Black\u00c2\u00a0female doctors in the United States and rich with\u00c2\u00a0historical detail, Kaitlyn Greenidge\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s new and immersive\u00c2\u00a0novel will resonate with readers eager to\u00c2\u00a0understand our present through a deep, moving,\u00c2\u00a0and lyrical dive into our past.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

That Summer<\/strong> by Jennifer Weiner –<\/p>\n

Daisy Shoemaker can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t sleep. With a thriving cooking business, full schedule of volunteer work, and a beautiful home in the Philadelphia suburbs, she should be content. But her teenage daughter can be a handful, her husband can be distant, her work can feel trivial, and she has lots of acquaintances, but no real friends. Still, Daisy knows she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s got it good. So why is she up all night?<\/p>\n

While Daisy tries to identify the root of her dissatisfaction, she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s also receiving misdirected emails meant for a woman named Diana Starling, whose email address is just one punctuation mark away from her own. While Daisy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s driving carpools, Diana is chairing meetings. While Daisy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s making dinner, Diana\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s making plans to reorganize corporations. Diana\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s glamorous, sophisticated, single-lady life is miles away from Daisy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s simpler existence. When an apology leads to an invitation, the two women meet and become friends. But, as they get closer, we learn that their connection was not completely accidental. Who IS this other woman, and what does she want with Daisy?<\/p>\n

From the manicured Main Line of Philadelphia to the wild landscape of the Outer Cape, written with Jennifer Weiner\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s signature wit and sharp observations,\u00c2\u00a0That Summer<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0is a story about surviving our pasts, confronting our futures, and the sustaining bonds of friendship.<\/p>\n

What arrived in your mailbox this week?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A big thank you to Marcia for originating Mailbox Monday. In this weekly meme you share books which came into your home during the week. The first book is from the library and the second is from NetGalley. I follow Kaitlyn Greenridge on twitter who amplifies voices I don’t follow on my feed. And it… Continue reading Mailbox Monday – May 17th<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[479,924,925,101,926],"class_list":["post-5144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-event","tag-jennifer-weiner","tag-kaitlyn-greenridge","tag-libertie","tag-mailbox-monday","tag-that-summer","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5144"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5146,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5144\/revisions\/5146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}