Pride Audiobook (Free)

A good, funny, gorgeous retelling of Satisfaction and Prejudice, starring all characters of color, from Ibi Zoboi, Country wide Publication Award finalist and writer of American Street.

Don’t skip the audiobook, browse by Elizabeth Acevedo, the much loved writer and narrator of The Poet X, winner of the Odyssey Honor and an AudioFile Earphones Award champion.

Zuri Benitez has satisfaction. Brooklyn pride, family members pride, and satisfaction in her Afro-Latino roots. But pride might not be enough to save her quickly about Satisfaction gentrifying neighborhood from becoming unrecognizable.

When the wealthy Darcy family members moves in across the street, Zuri wants nothing to do with their two teenage sons, even as her older sister, Janae, begins to fall for the charming Ainsley. She especially can’t stand the judgmental and arrogant Darius. However simply because Zuri and Darius are pressured to find common surface, their initial dislike shifts into an urgent understanding.

But with four crazy sisters pulling her in various directions, cute young man Warren vying on her behalf attention, and university applications hovering on the horizon, Zuri fights to get her place in Bushwick’s changing landscaping, or lose it all.

Within a timely update of Jane Austen’s Satisfaction and Prejudice, critically acclaimed author Ibi Zoboi skillfully balances cultural identity, class, and gentrification against the heady magic of 1st love in her vibrant reimagining of the beloved classic.