Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival and Hope in an American City
- Publisher
- Random House
- Length
- ≈ 640 pages
- Reading time
- 16–22 hours
- ISBN
- 0812986962
Reading time assumes 30–40 pages per hour; edition and reading pace affect this estimate. Edition source
What is this book about?
Invisible Child follows the life of Dasani, a homeless Black girl in New York City. It grew out of Andrea Elliott’s original newspaper reporting in 2013 and took eight years to write. Its themes include the failures of the city’s safety net for people in poverty, stark disparities in wealth and the cycle of violence.
Source: Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
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