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Sara Freeman by William Freeman

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Have you ever read the 2022 novel Tides by Sara Freeman ? She wrote an entire article about siblings and the intimacy between them that can sometimes cross lines them gave recs for books where such a relationship was present! You can read it here: https://lithub.com/the-blurry-boundaries-of-sibling-intimacy-a-reading-list/

I loved her little article about her own life experience, and her list, though short, included a couple titles I had not heard of yet. Thanks so much for sharing this!

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Tessa Thompson, in Copper

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Tides by Sara Freeman

Tides by Sara Freeman

We don’t know her name right away. She’s just “she,” and she is on a bus bound for somewhere else. She doesn’t really care where she’s going as long as it’s away from where she was. She comes to a small resort town on a lake somewhere in the upper Midwest with a few dollars in her pocket, the clothes on her back, and no real plan for what comes next. We get clues right away that something is…

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Disability Fest + Sara Freeman

"What they done to my brothers, I can't find the strength to move past the memory."

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Say what you will about Copper, but Sara and Matthew Freeman are one of the best couples to ever grace my tv. Normally "the Black couple" is either zanily disfuncional or occasionally, a hyper functional backdrop in an attempt to be progressive.

I wasn't expecting a fully realized relationship between two Black people in a show set in the 1860s, but Sara and Matthew felt very real. I didn't expect the show to to give them family members, or they own storylines, but it did.

I have only once before have seen a mainstream show portray a Black woman the way Sara is, a vulnerable but fundamentally competent individual. Sara is the absolute best part of the show for me and I could go on and on about representations of mentally ill black women, but I won't.

Matthew is great as well. I was kind of worried they were going to make him the perfect husband but now he's stubborn and kind of a jackass sometimes, but cue my surprise, he and Sara actually attempt to talk out their conflicts. Sometimes I feel an undercurrent of sexism in their interactions but I believe that is a function of the setting not a commentary on the relationships between black men and black women especially when you contrast their interactions with any of the white couples on the show.

I do have some issues, namely Matthew and Sara's isolation from the Black community. I'm sure Sara had at least one Black lady friend, not to mention people she would know from working as a seamstress and Matthew would by the necessity of his profession be quite connected and there were a lot of opportunities for storylines lost.

And that's part of why I'm still, in 2014, sad about Copper's cancellation, because they did improve the amount of screen time Matthew and Sarah were getting and the quality of their storylines, who knows where the show could have gone. I would have watched the hell out of a spin off, as well.

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Sara Freeman in Home, Sweet Home