LouisvilleReads | Ep 32 | Invisible Child (2021) | Andrea Elliott | 8-26-22

Episode #32 of LouisvilleReads! Reading and reviewing investigative journalist for The New York Times Andrea Elliott's breathtaking 2022 winner of the Pulitzer Prizes for Nonfiction 'Invisible Child: Poverty Survival & Hope in an American City'. Serialized in NYT articles from approximately 2013 to 2021, Elliott captures life's peaks and valleys for Dasani Coates, a young, homeless, African American girl and her family as they navigate America's often unseen (almost Dickensian) socioeconomic margins still very much extant in the 21 century. Coming of age and self-awareness, Dansani must make a choice between how poverty is defined: the lack of income...or the lack of family. Interview with the author courtesy of the Free Library of Philadelphia on the back half!