Andrea Elliott.
ANDREA ELLIOTT: DASANI COATES BIOGRAPHY
INVISIBLE CHILD: POVERTY, SURVIVAL AND HOPE IN AN AMERICAN CITY (2013)
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Andrea Elliott has written a heart-breaking yet inspiring account of the childhood of Dasani Coates, a child brought up in abject poverty in Brooklyn, New York City. Dasani has to move with her homeless family of seven sibilings, in desperate circumstances, from shelter to shelter. Elliott weaves Dasani’s story into that of her ancestors who escaped from slavery by moving north. Dasani has to contend with violence, hunger and the drug addiction of her parents. When she has the opportnity to move to a boarding school in Pennsylvania the conflict become acute between her own future and the desperate circumstances of the family she is leaving behind.
In its review of the book, Publishers Weekly wrote: ‘Elliott manages to incorporate moments of profound hope and togetherness throughout. This is a remarkable achievement that speaks to the heart and conscience of a nation.’
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Andrea Elliott is the child of a Chilean mother and American father, born in Washington DC. After working in documentary TV programmes in Chile and San Francisco, she studied at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, coming first in her class. Sjhe joined the Miami Herald as a reporter, then the New York Times where she covered the Bronx area. Andrea Elliott has won two Pulitzer Prizes - the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing for a series of articles on an Egyptian-born Imam living in Brooklyn, and the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for Invisible Child.
