Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City Free Audiobook Download by Andrea Elliott

Andrea Elliott's Invisible Child is a powerful work of journalism, combining investigative reporting and personal memoir. Elliot brings the reader into Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City. This audiobook is full of hard-hitting socioeconomic issues.

Andrea Elliott has written an insightful and heart-wrenching book about poverty in America. She followed the story of four young African American children as they were raised by their single mothers in two different cities, Compton and Atlanta.

Andrea Elliott's Invisible Child is a personal account of her two years living in urban Milwaukee, one of the poorest cities in America. She documents how she and her family adjusted to their new life and found ways to live on the edge of poverty while still making the tender connections that are necessary to thrive.

The novel takes place in the poorest zip code of America. Adenrele is a 14 year old Nigerian girl who is escaping the violence of her home country and arriving on American shores with a promise to give her family enough money to live off of. However, during this journey and through her time living in the United States she begins to change as she starts to see that there are things people struggle with everywhere, not just in Africa.

Andrea Elliott has written a powerful, personal account of how the current state of poverty in America has impacted her own family. This audiobook is a journey of the author and her two sons as they struggle to make it through the complex modern fabric of American urban living. In this memoir, Andrea Elliott takes us on an emotional ride on the reality of what it is like to be poor in America today and how some people are still able to find hope amidst all the chaos.

In her work by Andrea Elliott, "Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City" the author describes how she spent three months living amongst the poor and homeless of New York City to come to know them and see what they had to offer. From her time among those who were on the edge of society, she found a tremendous amount of resilience and hope which she then incorporated into her book. This audiobook download is narrated by Adenrele Ojo.