Andrea Elliott is an investigative reporter for The New York Times. Her reporting has been awarded a Pulitzer Prize, a George Polk Award, a Scripps Howard Award and prizes from the Overseas Press Club and the American Society of News Editors. She has served as an Emerson fellow at New America, a visiting journalist at the Russell Sage Foundation and a visiting scholar at the Columbia Population Research Center, and is the recipient of a Whiting Foundation grant. In 2015, she received Columbia University's Medal for Excellence, given to one alumnus or alumna under the age of forty-five. She lives in New York City. Invisible Child is her first book, which won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction.
Andrea Elliott's reporting has an intimate, almost limitless feel
to it... The result of this unflinching, tenacious reporting is a
rare and powerful work whose stories will live inside you long
after you've read them.
*New York Times*
A monumental work of journalism
*Sunday Times*
This is non-fiction writing at its best - uncluttered, evocative
and well-researched... This is not a polemic. Elliott bears witness
but does not preach; she shows but rarely tells. She does not
pretend to be a neutral bystander (how could you immerse yourself
in a struggling family for eight years and not root for them?) but
does not intrude on her own storytelling. It is not a morality play
either. The villains are too elusive and the heroes too flawed for
that. This is structural, generational poverty at work in all its
gruesome, demeaning inhumanity and punitive, institutional
brutality.
*New Statesmen*
A gripping and propulsive work of narrative non-fiction . . . [an]
indelible, virtuosic portrait of contemporary America
*Financial Times*
A triumph of in-depth reporting and storytelling ... a visceral
blow-by-blow depiction of what 'structural racism' has meant in the
lives of generations of one family ... above all else it is a
celebration of a little girl-an unforgettable heroine whose
frustration, elation, exhaustion, and intelligence will haunt your
heart.
*Ariel Levy*
An intimate exploration of poverty and racism in the U.S., as well
as a portrait of a young person's resilience
*Time*
Invisible Child is hands down the best book I have read in years.
Astonishing, remarkable, shocking, powerful, gripping, compelling.
All of these words apply and more. This is a book of immense
importance, written with tremendous craft and skill, but also
compassion and verve . . . For those who have not read Invisible
Child I am jealous, you are in for an extraordinary ride. Simply
put, this is a masterpiece.
*Thomas Harding, bestselling author of Hanns and Rudolf and The
House by the Lake*
Sure to linger in the minds of many readers long after the last
page has been turned... What easily could have been, in lesser
hands, voyeuristic or sensational is instead a rich narrative,
empathetically told. Elliott is a masterful storyteller and, by
sharing Dasani's story, she calls on all of us to dismantle the
systems that so often failed her and countless others
*NPR*
A tour de force
*The i*
An eye-opening, heartbreaking and deeply enraging book about the
realities of contemporary US inequality
*Irish Times*
A tender portrait of a family, and a tour of America's broken
welfare systems and racist policies.
*The Atlantic*
A fascinating and powerful epic
*Stylist*
A towering feat of reporting that paints, layer by layer, an
extraordinary portrait of a child, a family, a city, and the nation
that produced them. From start to finish, she sustains an
insatiably curious and deeply empathetic focus on worlds that so
many people work hard, if mostly unconsciously, to never really
see.
*Howard W. French, author of Born in Blackness*
A wonderful and important book.
*Tracy Kidder, author of Mountains Beyond Mountains*
Invisible Child is a tour de force of immersive reporting and a
meticulous and unflinching depiction of intergenerational American
poverty... Elliott exposes the granular texture of daily life with
deep empathy, the punishing sameness of material want, and in the
process paints a sweeping portrait of contemporary American
life.
*Nieman Foundation*
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