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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.
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