Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival and Hope in an American City

Name: Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival and Hope in an American City
Author: Andrea Elliott
ISBN: 9780812986969

Andrea Elliott

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Andrea Elliott

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#100 of 3,809 books · #57 in Biography & Memoir

Won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (2022) and the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize (2022). Also shortlisted or longlisted for 2 other awards.

Invisible Child won the Pulitzer Prize and was a National Bestseller. In Invisible Child, Pulitzer Prize winner Andrea Elliott follows eight dramatic years in the life of Dasani, a girl whose imagination is as soaring as the skyscrapers near her Brooklyn shelter. In this sweeping narrative, Elliott weaves the story of Dasani's childhood with the history of her ancestors, tracing their passage from slavery to the Great Migration north. As Dasani comes of age, New York City's homeless crisis has exploded, deepening the chasm between rich and poor. She must guide her siblings through a world riddled by hunger, violence, racism, drug addiction, and the threat of foster care. Out on the street, Dasani becomes a fierce fighter "to protect those who I love." When she finally escapes city life to enroll in a boarding school, she faces an impossible question: What if leaving poverty means abandoning your family, and yourself? A work of luminous and riveting prose, Elliott's Invisible Child reads like a page-turning novel. It is an astonishing story about the power of resilience, the importance of family and the cost of inequality—told through the crucible of one remarkable girl.

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