It isn’t required at all and in fact you’ll probably be more surprised by events in this book. Because you can totally read this without the original. If you haven’t read the original, I don’t want to spoil this book for you. This audio book really take the entire book to a new level. I adored listening to Acevedo read Zuri’s poems and hear the emotion in her voice. Talk about a narrator who can make the words come alive. I couldn’t get to Pride before it released, but in some ways that makes me really happy because I got to listen to it read by Elizabeth Acevedo. Not to mention there’s also poems in this book that are lyrical and touching. Zoboi manages to retain the foundation of the original, while also taking us somewhere entirely new with a fresh new story. I have never lived in Brooklyn, but you could feel the setting as another character in this story. Zoboi transforms Pride and Prejudice into a book that has so many great parallels. In a timely update of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, critically acclaimed author Ibi Zoboi skillfully balances cultural identity, class, and gentrification against the heady magic of first love in her vibrant reimagining of this beloved classic. 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. It took all the elements I love about the classic, and re-imagined them in such a vivid and wonderful way. Pride was lyrical, imaginative, and a fresh take on Pride and Prejudice.

Pride by ibi zoboi