As property values rise, Zuri and her family worry about being priced out of their apartment. Zuri is Bushwick born and bred Darius’ family bought the run-down house across the street and fixed it up – it’s one more step in the neighborhood changing irrevocably. Zoboi really makes the class distinction work here by setting the action in rapidly gentrifying Brooklyn. In case you haven’t gathered based on the character names, Pride is another entry in the romance subgenre of Pride and Prejudice retellings. With that said, her describing Darius Darcy as having “stank face” is PERFECTION. And as a sassy teenager, she uses slang which I guess is hip and authentic to her time and place, but I am really not the one to tell you that because sometimes I felt like I was reading a foreign language. Our narrator, Zuri Benitez, is super sassy.
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