Hey, it's NPR's Book of the Day. I'm Andrew Limbaugh. The Pulitzer Prizes were announced this week,

and lots of great books were honored. And surprise, surprise, we featured a few of them before on NPR.

In a bit, we'll hear about the late Winfred Rember, whose autobiography chasing me to my grave,

an artist's memoir of the Jim Crow South

just won a prize for biography. The Pulitzer folks call it a, quote, searing memoir in prose

and painted leather that celebrates black life. But first, reporter Andrea Elliott spent

nearly a decade following Desani, a young girl living in poverty in Brooklyn, New York.

And that reporting turned into a book about poverty and how difficult it is to escape, titled

Invisible Child.

And Elliot makes this great point in this interview with here and now's Jane Claisen.

She says she didn't follow Desana because she was extraordinary because focusing on the few extraordinary kids

that make it out of poverty distracts us, absolves us maybe from caring about the other 99%.

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In 2019, when the school bell rang at the end of the day, more than 100,000 school children in New York City had no permanent home to go to. Children are not often the face of

homelessness, but their stories are heartbreaking and sobering. Childhoods denied, spent in and out

of shelters, growing up with absent parents, often raising themselves and their siblings.

In 2013, the story of a young girl named Desani Coates took up five straight front pages in the

New York Times. The oldest of eight, Desani and her family

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