Seventeen year old Zuri Benitez is proud of her family, of their Haitian-Dominican heritage, of their community. Read moreĪ contemporary YA remix of Pride and Prejudice set in Brooklyn.

In the end I still liked where the story went and even though the romance was lame I did like Zuri by the end. CollinsCharlize - CharlotteCatherine Darcy - Lady Catherine de BourghSome personalities were altered to make them a little more likeable and others were kind of one-offs just for the nod towards the original material. BingleyJanae - Jane BennetWarren - WickamMarisol - Mary BennetLayla - Lydia BennetKayla - Kitty BennetCarrie - Caroline BingleyGeorgia - Georgiana Darc圜ollin - Mr. Here's the rundown Zuri - Elizabeth BennetDarius - Mr. She doesn't warm up very much to the Darcy family that owns that house either.

When a wealthy family purchases the dumpy old house across the street and renovate it into a modern new house Zuri despises the changes she sees on her street. Her family is everything to her and she's excited for her sister Janae to come home from college for the summer. Zuri Benitez has lived in a run down apartment building in Bushwick for her whole life. She's unjustifiably rude and downright unpleasant. In every retelling I hate the 'Lizzie Bennet' for the way she treats 'Mr. 'Zoboi skillfully depicts the vicissitudes of teenage relationships, and Zuri’s outsize pride and poetic sensibility make her a sympathetic teenager in a contemporary story about race, gentrification, and young love.' ( Publishers Weekly, 'An Anti-Racist Children's and YA Reading List') Read moreĪfter reading this re-imagined Pride and Prejudice and countless others I'm left wondering if I ever really liked Elizabeth Bennet. Yet as Zuri and Darius are forced to find common ground, their initial dislike shifts into an unexpected understanding.īut with four wild sisters pulling her in different directions, cute boy Warren vying for her attention, and college applications hovering on the horizon, Zuri fights to find her place in Bushwick’s changing landscape, or lose it all. 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. 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.

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