Author Talk with Ibi Zoboi

Join YA award-winning author Ibi Zoboi as she discusses her novel Pride, a vibrant reimagining of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, about cultural identity, class, and gentrification against the magic of first love.

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. She especially can’t stand the judgmental and arrogant Darius. Yet as Zuri and Darius are forced to find common ground, their initial dislike shifts into an unexpected understanding.

But 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.

Books will be available for sale and signing.

Host or Publisher Gwinnett County Public Library