Pride: A Pride & Prejudice Remix

In a timely update of Jane Austen's Pride and PrejudiceNational Book Award finalist Ibi Zoboi skillfully balances cultural identity, class, and gentrification against the heady magic of first love in her vibrant reimagining of this beloved classic. A smart, funny, gorgeous retelling starring all characters of color. 

Zuri Benitez has pride. Brooklyn pride, family pride, and pride in her Afro-Latino roots. But pride might not be enough to save her rapidly gentrifying neighborhood from becoming unrecognizable.
When the wealthy Darcy family moves in across the street, Zuri wants nothing to do with their two teenage sons, even as her older sister, Janae, starts to fall for the charming Ainsley. She especially can’t stand the judgmental and arrogant Darius. Yet as Zuri and Darius are forced to find common ground, their initial dislike shifts into an unexpected understanding.
But with four wild sisters pulling her in different directions, cute boy Warren vying for her attention, and college applications hovering on the horizon, Zuri fights to find her place in Bushwick’s changing landscape, or lose it all.
"Zoboi skillfully depicts the vicissitudes of teenage relationships, and Zuri’s outsize pride and poetic sensibility make her a sympathetic teenager in a contemporary story about race, gentrification, and young love." (Publishers Weekly, "An Anti-Racist Children's and YA Reading
List")

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Published Dec 17, 2019

Average rating: 7.43

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Readers say *Pride: A Pride & Prejudice Remix* by Ibi Zoboi offers a fresh, relatable retelling of the classic, set in modern Brooklyn with rich cultu...

serpentskirtt
Jul 14, 2020
1/10 star
AWFUL HORRIBLE NO GOOD BOOK
Bernadinc
Jan 31, 2026
1/10 star
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LuceBooks
Jan 31, 2026
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Mrs. Awake Taco
Nov 13, 2024
8/10 stars
Delightful retelling of Pride and Prejudice. It hit all the right notes for me. It felt modern without being forced and cringey, and I loved how characters got a little more grace in this book. There was more reconciliation, more forgiveness, more good feeling in a lot of ways. I also love how the pride aspect was more about pride in one’s roots and culture than necessarily oneself, and how one’s pride in one’s own identity can cause some myopia, while at the same time I felt so deeply that love Zuri had for her home. 10/10 would recommend to all my friends.
Shahna
Jul 18, 2024
4/10 stars
I'm frustrated.
Zuri is so angry all the time.
And not in a fun way.
There's a lot going on.

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