A review by heathero621
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival, and Hope in an American City by Andrea Elliott

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

It's not surprising that this book won the Pulitzer Prize because it was fantastic.  It is investigative journalism that follows Dasani and her family for multiple years in New York.  Dasani and her family are low-income to homeless and the book chronicles how they deal and live within the system.  The book is very infuriating at times because at how inept some government agencies are and how this family (and many others like them) have to jump through so many hoops to get what they need.  The book makes a great case for why families need to stay together, especially biological family (obviously there are instances when some families should not stay together).  It was eye opening and sad.  I listened to the audio and I thought the narrator did a good job.  I'm glad that the author has set up a fund for Dasani and a part of the proceeds of this book will go to her.