Title: Pride
Author: Ibi Zoboi
Publisher: Balzer + Bray September 18, 2018
Pages: 304
Synopsis: (from Good Reads)
Zuri Benitez has pride. Brooklyn pride, family pride, and pride in her
Afro-Latino roots.
But pride might not be enough to save her rapidly gentrifying neighborhood
from becoming unrecognizable.
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.
Zuri Benitez is such a strong character in this book. Zuri has a lot on her plate,
she wants to make her parents proud, take care of her younger sisters while her older
sister Janae is away at college; and keep them out from under their mothers feet, and
she has college application deadlines fast approaching. On top of all that going on,
things become even more complicated in Bushwick. Just as Janae gets home for
summer from school; new wealthy neighbors move in across the street, with two
sons. Against Zuri’s wishes, Janae falls for Ainsley, the older of the two and Zuri
despises them both. While trying to keep Bushwick her Bushwick, Zuri has to
juggle her sisters, boys, where she fits into the rapidly changing Bushwick and
her college plans.
Zuri goes through a lot in this books; and she does have to be the girl inside the
girl from Bushwick a few times but that just puts her reality in perspective.
I can relate to Zuri on the not liking change, and juggling things in life and
I really enjoyed this read. It’s the story of a girl who takes pride in who she is
and where she comes from, no matter what others might think. We need strong
female characters for girls growing up to read and want to be like and Zuri is
one of those, even if she falls a few times along the way. The comeback is always
stronger than the setback.
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