We Love You, Charlie Freeman

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We Love You, Charlie Freeman
336 pages; Algonquin Books
Among the narrators of this startling and sharp debut novel is Charlotte, the too-smart-for-her-own-good teenage daughter of a black family paid to raise a chimp as one of their own in a facility that turns out to have a sinister, racist history.
— Dotun Akintoye