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Pride

Ibi Zoboi

Start date: July 1, 2019

Finish date: July 30, 2019

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Why we're reading this: Our diversity topic we will cover in July is Classism.

Pride by Ibi Zoboi
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Pride by Ibi Zoboi

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Jul 08, 2019 Aura rated it it was amazing

Shelves: new-york, ya, coming-of-age, multi-culti, best-of-2019, latino, african-american

Pride is being sold as modern take on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. I dont think this is a good description. I guess I am in the minority but I have never been a big fan of Jane Austen. I think I have read two or three of her books and I found it difficult to concentrate with pages and pages of minutia. Anyway, Pride is not that. Pride is short and to the point. It is gritty and real. It is a lot like the main character Zuri Benitez. She is a young smart confident girl from the "hood" who k ...more

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Sep 21, 2018 Diana added it

Shelves: dnfed

I was so hyped up for this book but it didn't live up to its expectations for me. I just couldn't get into the book, the narrative didn't hook me up and I didn't like the meddling sister who decides to stop her sisters (older and younger) from spending time with the new rich kids or having any kind of relationship. And since she is like the main character it wasn't looking good for me... ...more

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Mar 25, 2020 Megan rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

This modern retelling of Pride and Prejudice was made absolutely phenomenal because the audio was narrated by Elizabeth Acevedo, spoken word poet extraordinaire. In this reiteration, high school senior Zuri Benitez, a proud and fiery Afro-Latinx is horrified when the rich Darcy family buys and renovates a dilapidated townhouse in her Bushwick neighborhood. Zuri loves her boisterous community and is very judgmental about the Darcy family, blaming them for the impending gentrification of the neigh ...more

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