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. L.A.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 Walter Award, Teen Category (Punching the Air, 2021) Muriel Becker Award from the New Jersey Council of Teachers of English (American Street, 2019) New York Times Notable Book (American Street, 2017)Īmericas Award for Children’s and Young Adult Literature (American Street, 2018)
National Book Award Finalist (American Street, 2017) Photo credit: Nicole Mondestin Photography
She’s worked for arts organizations such as Teachers & Writers Collaborative and Community Word Project as a writer-in-residence and teaching artist in New York City public schools.īorn in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and raised in New York City, Ibi lives in Maplewood, New Jersey with her husband and their three children. As an educator, she was the recipient of several grants from the Brooklyn Arts Council for her community-based programs for teen girls in both Brooklyn and Haiti. Her writing has been published in The New York Times Book Review, the Horn Book Magazine, and The Rumpus, among others. Ibi has appeared on CBS This Morning and The Reid Out alongside Yusef Salaam, and on PBS’s Book View Now. Her most recent books are STAR CHILD: A BIOGRAPHICAL CONSTELLATION OF OCTAVIA ESTELLE BUTLER, and OKOYE TO THE PEOPLE: A BLACK PANTHER NOVEL for Marvel. Her debut picture book, THE PEOPLE REMEMBER, received a Coretta Scott King Book Honor Award. Ibi is the editor of BLACK ENOUGH: STORIES OF BEING YOUNG & BLACK IN AMERICA. Yusef Salaam of the Exonerated Five, which was also shortlisted for the U.K.’s Yoto Carnegie Medal. Times Book Prize-winning PUNCHING THE AIR with prison reform activist Dr. Ibi Zoboi is the New York Times Bestselling author of AMERICAN STREET, a National Book Award Finalist PRIDE, a contemporary remix of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and MY LIFE AS AN ICE CREAM SANDWICH, her middle-grade debut. She is also the co-author of the Walter Award and L.A.
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