PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A vivid and devastating” (The New York Times)
portrait of an indomitable girl—from acclaimed journalist Andrea Elliott From its first
indelible pages to its rich and startling conclusion Invisible Child had me by turns
stricken inspired outraged illuminated in tears and hungering for reimmersion in its
Dickensian depths.”—Ayad Akhtar author of Homeland Elegies ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE
YEAR: The New York Times • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Atlantic The New York Times
Book Review Time NPR Library Journal In Invisible Child Pulitzer Prize winner Andrea
Elliott follows eight dramatic years in the life of Dasani a girl whose imagination is as
soaring as the skyscrapers near her Brooklyn shelter. In this sweeping narrative Elliott
weaves the story of Dasani’s childhood with the history of her ancestors tracing their passage
from slavery to the Great Migration north. As Dasani comes of age New York City’s homeless
crisis has exploded deepening the chasm between rich and poor. She must guide her siblings
through a world riddled by hunger violence racism drug addiction and the threat of foster
care. Out on the street Dasani becomes a fierce fighter to protect those who I love.” When she
finally escapes city life to enroll in a boarding school she faces an impossible question:
What if leaving poverty means abandoning your family and yourself? A work of luminous and
riveting prose Elliott’s Invisible Child reads like a page-turning novel. It is an astonishing
story about the power of resilience the importance of family and the cost of inequality—told
through the crucible of one remarkable girl. Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize •
Finalist for the Bernstein Award and the PEN John Kenneth Galbraith Award • Longlisted for the
Baillie Gifford Prize
