Andrea Elliott on INVISIBLE CHILD
Poured Over
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Home Is the People, the People I Hang Out With
The book is about belonging. It's about who gets to belong to a place and who doesn't. And that place is for green brooklyn, or city in a broader sense. More than 50 years after the civil rights movement, more than 50 years since l b j's declared war on poverty,. still feels different for a family like tesone's. Who gets to belong? Who should belong? This is, i think, one of the biggest lessons i learned writing this book. She said at her sha, i feel like a stranger, like i don't really belong. You know what dasana said to me recently? She said, home is the people I
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