[ONLINE] - Andrea Elliott, INVISIBLE CHILD

2016 Emerson Collective Fellow Andrea Elliot guides readers through eight years of the life of Dasani, a young girl from Brooklyn navigating her family through the New York City homeless crisis. Dasani was named after the bottled water that signaled Brooklyn’s gentrification and the shared aspirations of a divided city. In this sweeping narrative, Elliott weaves the story of Dasani’s childhood with the history of her family, tracing the passage of their ancestors from slavery to the Great Migration north.

A heartbreaking yet enlightening story, Invisible Child explores some of the most critical issues in contemporary America through the life of one girl. Based on nearly ten years of reporting, Elliot’s book is a riveting, unforgettable story of a girl whose indomitable spirit is tested by homelessness, poverty, and racism in an unequal America.

Join the New America Fellows Program for a conversation with Andrea Elliott and 2021 Fellow Brian Goldstone about the story of Dasani and the harsh realities of poverty and homelessness facing thousands of American families.

Follow the conversation online using #InvisibleChild and follow us at @NAFellows.

Speakers:

Andrea Elliott, @andreafelliott
2016 Emerson Collective Fellow, New America
Author, Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival, and Hope in an American City

Brian Goldstone, @brian_goldstone
2021 National Fellow, New America

Copies of Invisible Child are available for purchase here through our bookselling partner Solid State Books.