S2 Ep 52: Pulitzer Prize Winning Author Andrea Elliot talks about Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City

Raising Good Humans

Voicing Change Media

Education, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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This week's episode is unique - I was so moved by this incredible book, Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City, that I invited author Andrea Elliott on to recount her experience of how a New York Times piece evolved into this astonishing book about poverty, code-switching, and the rejection of institutional comforts. Produced by Dear Media See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a deer media production.
0:07.3	Welcome to Raising Good Humans. I'm Dr. Lisa Pressman and today's episode is a departure from
0:13.5	my typical episodes because I read this incredible book by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist
0:22.0	Andrea Elliott and I just wanted everybody to experience it. It's called Invisible Child
0:32.2	Poverty Survival and Hope in an American City and I just want you to hear from Andrea and get
0:41.1	inspired to read this book and just get outside of yourself and dive into this book. It's heartbreaking
0:47.9	but it's also incredibly hopeful and so we had this incredible conversation. Please have a listen
0:55.6	and tell me what you think. I love hearing from you. You can DM me on Instagram at Raising Good Humans
1:01.9	Podcast and please don't forget to sign up for dralisa.bulletin.com and for premium subscribers,
1:12.2	I'm going to be doing a four session, four week mindfulness and parenting course starting in May.
1:20.8	I hope you'll join so we can have an opportunity to connect and interact and have a listen.
1:27.1	Don't forget to subscribe, rate and write a little review. We're going to start this episode
1:31.4	with Andrea reading from the prologue of this book to sort of set the context. Then we'll dive into
1:40.3	resilience, witness, story and the Invisible Child. October 6, 2015. First, they came for Papa.
1:52.7	The eight year old boy asked no questions. He knew to be quiet in the presence of strangers.
1:59.6	Two women led him to a silver van. Papa looked out the window as the ignition started.
2:05.5	There was his school, a rectangle of brick that got smaller and smaller as the van pulled away.
2:12.3	Eleven miles south, another van collected Papa's brother from his school and forced sisters
2:18.1	from their schools, delivering all six siblings to the same place. The Staten Island office
2:25.2	of New York City's Child Protection Agency, only the youngest child remained. The van turned east
2:32.8	heading up Laurel Avenue toward a white, clopboard duplex with a boarded up window.
2:38.4	There on the sidewalk stood baby Lily with her father. The toddler hid behind his legs.
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