Invisible Child

Invisible Child is the story of eight years in the lives of Dasani Coates and her family. Dasani grows from a child to an adolescent amid a family that faces homelessness, drug use, joblessness, interpersonal strife, racism, incompetent social workers, ineffective social programs, food insecurity, neighborhood violence, termination of parental rights, foster care, prison sentences, and bad schools. And despite intervention after intervention, opportunity after opportunity, the family spirals down, down, down.

It is one of the bleakest true stories I have ever read, and I am left feeling a sense of helplessness and hopelessness for the family. What went wrong? What should have been done differently? How could things be made right?