Reviews
“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
“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 satire of class, race, and savior complexes.”
Kirkus Reviews
“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