Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City

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Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
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Author Andrea Elliott
LanguageEnglish
Publisher Random House
Publication date
October 5, 2021
Publication place United States
Awards Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
ISBN 978-0-8129-8694-5

Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City is a book written by Andrea Elliott. The book took eight years to write, and is the extension of Elliott's original reporting 2013 on the life of Dasani, a homeless black girl in New York city. [1] The book explores several themes, including the failure in the city's safety net and support for those in poverty, glaring wealth disparity, and the cycle of violence. [1]

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Reviews

This book has been reviewed by editors of The New York Times , [1] The Times , [2] The Week , [3] The Irish Times , [4] NPR, [5] The Guardian [6] and The Washington Post . [7] Matthew Desmond, the winner of the Pulitzer Prize in non-fiction for his book Evicted in 2017, wrote a positive review in The New York Times in 2021. [1]

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