A Hope in the Unseen
A gifted student from one of Washington's toughest high schools makes it to Brown, and finds that staying is the hard part.
Ron Suskind follows Cedric Jennings from Ballou High School, one of the most troubled schools in Washington, DC, to Brown University. The book grew out of Suskind’s Pulitzer Prize-winning articles for The Wall Street Journal, and it tracks Cedric’s struggles with money, race and class as he tries to find his place in the Ivy League.
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Cecile Richards
This is an incredible book: It’s about this amazing young kid, Cedric Jennings, who not only graduated from the DC public schools but then goes to Brown University, which is where I went to school. It’s just an extraordinary story.
Interview · July 2011
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