7/8/2023 0 Comments Pride and prejudice ibi zoboi![]() ![]() “I have teens, too, and it’s something I’m dealing with personally living in Brooklyn,” she noted. Austen’s world helped her realize she wanted to address class and socioeconomic status in her book. “ Pride and Prejudice came up because I said I wanted to deal with political issues between two kids falling in love and the conflict between them,” explained Zoboi. It was Zoboi’s editor, Alessandra Balzer, who suggested looking at the structure of classic works for inspiration. I actually started some projects before the election, and during, and after the election, but it was really tough for me to capture a light love story. “And it was especially hard to write a love story within this political climate. ![]() “Love stories are hard for me,” she said. Zoboi said she was having some difficulty finding not only the right approach to the book, but the proper mindset for it, too. “I wanted to go a little bit lighter after that and write about kids not dealing with violence or trauma, just falling in love, but still making some sort of political statement. ![]() “ American Street was just so hard to write,” she said. ![]() Pride arrives fast on the heels of Zoboi’s 2017 debut, American Street, about a Haitian girl who’s thrust into the rough Detroit neighborhood where her relatives live, while she tries to free her mother, who is being detained by U.S. ![]()
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