A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League, by Ron Suskind (TPB, 1998, $1.75)
Ron Suskind is a staff writer for the Wall Street Journal. In 1995 he won the Pulitzer prize for a two-part series about the high-school years of Cedric Jennings. Cedric Jennings is an honor student at a Washington D.C. inner city school. He earns a place in a summer program at MIT. One year later he is accepted by Brown University, but once there he finds himself unprepared both intellectually and socially. Many of his peers are rich whites. Others are middle-class blacks. With neither does he have anything in common. Still, he has intelligence and determination. As Jonathan Yardley writes, "A story of sheer human grit that should be read by others as example and inspiration."
Look for his courageous story on the new non-fiction table. Avail. 9/17.
