Hope in the Unseen
An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League

The five stars go equally to Ron Suskind the author and Cedric Jennings, the hero of the book. As any other review will tell you it is a story about a boy from the ghetto who somehow managed to learn something in his gang-infested high school (think Gangsta's Paradise) and made it to one of the Ivy......more

I had just read Hillbilly Elegy when I started reading A Hope in the Unseen. I think they make fantastic comparisons. I greatly preferred JD Vance's Hillbilly Elegy for the simple reason that it is an autobiography rather than a biography. With A Hope in the Unseen, a white woman reading a book writ......more

Envision a mother and her six-year-old son standing outside an apartment house on the wrong side of Washington, D.C. The mother bends her knees so she will be on a level with the boy. She directs his vision down four long blocks to the school he will attend. On every corner boys, young men are gathe......more