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Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City

In Invisible Child, Andrea Elliott presents a biographical portrait centered on poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City. The narrative identifies the people, decisions, and pressures that shaped the subject, then places those developments within the connected fields of biography & autobiography and social science. The result avoids a single easy lesson, emphasizing instead how circumstances, institutions, and individual choices interacted over time. Readers finish with a sharper understanding of the subject and why its consequences still deserve attention. Historical context and individual experience remain equally important to the book's explanation.

Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 2021
Format: Print edition
Pages: 624
ISBN: 9780812986945

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Biography & Autobiography: Cultural. Ethnic. & Regional – African American & Black Social Science: Poverty & Homelessness Social Science: Social Classes & Economic Disparity

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