Invisible Children: Poverty, Survival, and Hope in an American City
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"Invisible Child" is a non-fiction work written by New York Times investigative reporter and Princeton University professor Andrea Elliott over an eight-year period, citing and referencing 14,325 various documents. It tells the story of the eight-year tortuous growth experience of a girl named Dasani. In this ambitious and historical work, Elliott interweaves the story of Dasani's childhood with the history of her family, tracing their experiences from slavery to the northward migration, as well as the family's plight and struggles in New York. Dasani grew up at a time when New York's homelessness crisis was erupting and the gap between rich and poor was widening. Without a stable living environment, she must guide her younger siblings to face a world full of hunger, violence, racism, and drugs. While leading his seven younger siblings from one shelter to another, Dasani was also looking for a way out of this fate. When she finally escapes that plight and enrolls in a boarding school, she's faced with a difficult question: What do you do if escaping poverty means abandoning your family and yourself? "Invisible Child" uses delicate writing to show a struggling girl in trouble, a family where poverty is passed down from generation to generation, and a city where abject poverty and great wealth may be separated by a street.
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