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Invisible Child
- Poverty, Survival and Hope in New York City
- Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
- Length: 21 hrs and 8 mins
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Summary
Brought to you by Penguin.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction 2022.
Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2022.
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 13, 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.
Critic reviews
"With compassion and curiosity, [Elliott] uses the story of Dasani to make visible the cycles of poverty, inequity, and resilience that plague families across the United States.... This is a remarkable achievement that speaks to the heart and conscience of a nation." (Publishers Weekly)
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- DeltaAlphaXray
- 04-07-22
Utterly gripping
this is a con that will go on to be an iconic story about how we lived in the early 21st century.
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- Jen
- 05-02-23
An eye-opening journey, brilliantly read
A thoroughly engaging and eye-opening journey, brilliantly narrated/read - which is so important for an audio book.
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- Fiona Anaman
- 16-02-22
Heartwrenching
I loved listening to this book, it is an excellent illustration of the suffering of black Americans in the Big Apple. Something you don't expect in the first world. You can see clearly how the system is rigged against those struggling to survive. Poor Supreme, how he tried to put food on the table with the System working against him. Catch-22 made real!
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- Narguesse Stevens
- 04-01-23
Ups and downs in a chaotic but loving poverty-stricken Brooklyn family
This reportage of one large, tightly-knit, homeless family in Brooklyn is a real eye-opener into a life that most of us will never see or experience. The deep love, the coping strategies, the obstacles in the way of efforts to extract themselves from a dire shelter for the homeless shows a family reeling from crisis to crisis but never giving up . You can’t help but admire Dasani, the eldest of eight children, who is lively, bright, cheeky and the person most able to cope with her affectionate but chaotic parents and siblings.
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