Invisible child : poverty, survival, and hope in an American city / Andrea Elliott.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Elliott, Andrea, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Homeless children--New York (State)--New York--Biography.

Homeless children.

African American homeless children--New York (State)--New York--Biography.

African American homeless children.

Coates, Dasani, 2001-.

Coates, Dasani.

New York (State)--New York.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xx, 602 pages : maps, genealogical table ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC, [2021]

Summary:

"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 symbolize Brooklyn's gentrification and the shared aspirations of a divided city. As Dasani grows up, moving with her tightknit family from shelter to shelter, her story reaches back to trace the passage of Dasani's ancestors from slavery to the Great Migration north. By the time Dasani comes of age in the twenty-first century, New York City's homeless crisis is exploding amid the growing chasm between rich and poor. In the shadows of this new Gilded Age, Dasani must lead her seven siblings through a thicket of problems: hunger, parental addiction, violence, housing instability, pollution, 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. As she learns to "code-switch" between the culture she left behind and the norms of her new town, Dasani starts to feel like a stranger in both places. Ultimately, she faces an impossible question: What if leaving poverty means abandoning the family you love?"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 "A House Is Not a Home": 2012

2013

pt. 2 The Sykes Family: 1835

2003

pt. 3 Root Shock: 2003

pt. 4 "That Fire Gonna Burn!": 2013

2015

pt. 5 Dasani's Departure: 2015

pt. 6 "To Endure Any How": 2015

2016

pt. 7 Dasani's Way: 2016

2021.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Elliott, Andrea. Invisible child.

ISBN:

9780812986945

0812986946

OCLC:

1242026785

Publisher Number:

99988684994