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Based on nearly a decade of reporting, Invisible Child follows
eight dramatic years in the life of Dasani Coates, a child with an
imagination as soaring as the skyscrapers near her Brooklyn
homeless shelter. Born at the turn of a new century, Dasani is
named for the bottled water that comes to symbolise Brooklyn's
gentrification and the shared aspirations of a divided city. As
Dasani moves with her family from shelter to shelter, this story
traces the passage of Dasani's ancestors from slavery to the Great
Migration north. Dasani comes of age as New York City's homeless
crisis is exploding. In the shadows of this new Gilded Age, Dasani
leads her seven siblings through a thicket of problems: hunger,
parental drug addiction, violence, housing instability, segregated
schools and the constant monitoring of the child-protection system.
When, at age thirteen, Dasani enrolls at a boarding school in
Pennsylvania, her loyalties are tested like never before.
Ultimately, she faces an impossible question: What if leaving
poverty means abandoning the family you love? By turns
heartbreaking and revelatory, provocative and inspiring, Invisible
Child tells an astonishing story about the power of resilience, the
importance of family and the cost of inequality.
'A classic to rank with Orwell . . . I didn't want it to end'
CHRISTINA PATTERSON, SUNDAY TIMES Winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize
for Nonfiction A Barack Obama Favourite Book of the Year Winner of
the 2022 Anthony Lukas Book Prize Winner of the 2022 Gotham Book
Prize Winner of the 2022 Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence
in Journalism A New York Times 10 Best Books of 2021 A Time Top
Three Books of the Year An Atlantic Top Five Books of the Year
Finalist in the 2022 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes 'This is
non-fiction writing at its best - uncluttered, evocative and
well-researched' GARY YOUNGE, NEW STATESMEN 'An intimate
exploration of poverty and racism in the U.S., as well as a
portrait of a young person's resilience' TIME 'One of the most
moving and extraordinary pieces of reportage I've ever read' BEE
WILSON 'Andrea Elliott's reporting has an intimate, almost
limitless feel to it... The result of this unflinching, tenacious
reporting is a rare and powerful work whose stories will live
inside you long after you've read them.' NEW YORK TIMES
__________________________________ Based on nearly a decade of
reporting, Invisible Child follows eight dramatic years in the life
of Dasani Coates, a child with an imagination as soaring as the
skyscrapers near her Brooklyn homeless shelter. Born at the turn of
a new century, Dasani is named for the bottled water that comes to
symbolise Brooklyn's gentrification and the shared aspirations of a
divided city. As Dasani moves with her family from shelter to
shelter, this story traces the passage of Dasani's ancestors from
slavery to the Great Migration north. Dasani comes of age as New
York City's homeless crisis is exploding. In the shadows of this
new Gilded Age, Dasani leads her seven siblings through a thicket
of problems: hunger, parental drug addiction, violence, housing
instability, segregated schools and the constant monitoring of the
child-protection system. When, at age thirteen, Dasani enrolls at a
boarding school in Pennsylvania, her loyalties are tested like
never before. Ultimately, she faces an impossible question: What if
leaving poverty means abandoning the family you love? By turns
heartbreaking and revelatory, provocative and inspiring, Invisible
Child tells an astonishing story about the power of resilience, the
importance of family and the cost of inequality. 'Simply put, this
is a masterpiece' THOMAS HARDING 'A tender portrait of a family,
and a tour of America's broken welfare systems and racist
policies.' THE ATLANTIC
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