Winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction, Invisible Child is an utterly heartbreaking, maddening, and necessary read.
Journalist Andrea Elliott embeds for eight years with a family, two parents and their 8 children, enduring poverty in NYC. Elliott focuses her spotlight on eldest child Dasani, 11-years-old in 2012 when Invisible Child begins, to share what it’s like to grow up housing insecure, hungry, disadvantaged, victimized, displaced, and trying to survive within a terribly broken system. Dasani and her family’s story underscores just how willing we are to invest in poverty and policing and broken cycles, setting people up for failure, rather than investing in success and improved outcomes or even just how unwilling we are to see the humanity of those caught up.
An incredible feat of reporting and a must read.
I listened to this on audio and it was excellent in that format!
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