I didn’t see Lydia or Kitty anywhere, and I was looking really hard. I s’pose I appreciated that Zoboi gave all the characters the same beginning initials that the characters in P & P have because I would’ve been lost otherwise, just going by personalities. The younger three are wild and loud and get into trouble and just generally cause uproars.
As Zuri says: The Benitez girls talk loud and laugh from their bellies.Īnd there are five Benitez girls, with Zuri and big sister Janae being the most ambitious of the five. After all, the hood is gentrifying quite rapidly, with uptight and wealthy white people coming in, all looking down on the original families of the neighborhood for their loud and vivacious ways. When Darius Darcy and his family move into their neighborhood, Zuri is ready to feel nothing or to feel scorn if she must be made to feel anything. Zuri Benitez is pride personified, and that’s probably the biggest problem with Pride by Ibi Zoboi in this urban retelling of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. Not the best P & P Variation but certainly memorable… By: Ibi Zoboi / Narrated By: Elizabeth Acevedo
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