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Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival and Hope in New York City

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize”A future American classic” Ayad Akhtar”Simply put, this is a masterpiece” Thomas HardingBased 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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