EAN: 9781529156102

INVISIBLE CHILD - ANDREA ELLIOTT KARTONIERT (TB)

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 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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