This excellent coming-of-age take on a classic belongs on all YA shelves.” - School Library Journal (starred review)

★ “This Bushwick-set, contemporary retelling of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice tackles gentriciation, Blackness, and romance with honesty, humor, and heart. 'Zoboi skillfully depicts the vicissitudes of teenage relationships, and Zuri’s outsize pride and poetic sensibility make her a sympathetic teenager in a contemporary story about race, gentrification, and young love.' ( Publishers Weekly, 'An Anti-Racist Children's and YA Reading List') Yet as Zuri and Darius are forced to find common ground, their initial dislike shifts into an unexpected understanding.īut with four wild sisters pulling her in different directions, cute boy Warren vying for her attention, and college applications hovering on the horizon, Zuri fights to find her place in Bushwick’s changing landscape, or lose it all. She especially can’t stand the judgmental and arrogant Darius. When the wealthy Darcy family moves in across the street, Zuri wants nothing to do with their two teenage sons, even as her older sister, Janae, starts to fall for the charming Ainsley.

But pride might not be enough to save her rapidly gentrifying neighborhood from becoming unrecognizable. Brooklyn pride, family pride, and pride in her Afro-Latino roots. A smart, funny, gorgeous retelling starring all characters of color. Zuri and Darius live on the same street, one across from the other, yet their lives appear to be astronomically different.In a timely update of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, National Book Award finalist Ibi Zoboi skillfully balances cultural identity, class, and gentrification against the heady magic of first love in her vibrant reimagining of this beloved classic. The Darcy's rooftop, where Zuri and Darius sit and talk after Carrie's disastrous party, represents the similarities which can exist between people or social classes even amidst a whole host of differences. The restaurant represents the significant aesthetic and cultural changes taking place across Brooklyn due to the process known as gentrification, with the prices of land and associated taxes skyrocketing, and racial/ demographic changes taking place as an indirect result. Now, Charlise works there and enjoys the profit she gets from the high amount of money white people are willing to pay for 'farm-to-table' food in an up and coming restaurant. Bushwick Farm is the new restaurant that popped up in the Benitez family's neighborhood after the gentrification process began.

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