She especially can’t stand the judgmental and arrogant Darius. 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. But pride might not be enough to save her rapidly gentrifying neighborhood from becoming unrecognizable. Brooklyn pride, family pride, and pride in her Afro-Latino roots. Let’s Play: Is This Quote from Pride & Prejudice or the Remix?.Find More: These 9 YA Retellings Have Contemporary Twists That We’re Obsessed With.Start Reading: Read the First 4 Chapters of Pride!.Bookmark it now, and keep checking back for more! We can’t wait to see this brilliant book come to life on the screen, and you can bet we’ll update this article with every bit of news we get. But does she have time for romance when she’s fighting to protect the neighborhood she holds dear? Yet as she and the judgmental Darius start to understand one another better, well, sparks begin to fly. So when the wealthy Darcy family moves in across the street, she wants nothing to do with them. You can find out more from Deadline here.Īnd for the story itself… Zuri has pride, but that pride may not be enough to save her rapidly changing home. Pride is a remixed take on the classic, Pride and Prejudice, set against the gentrification of a Brooklyn neighborhood. This follows in the footsteps of some others: They Both Die at the End is currently also in development there, while Unpregnant just hit our screens via HBOMax last month.

Barnes, who also wrote on Teenage Bounty Hunters, is writing the adaptation, and will exec produce with Rothwell. Per Deadline, the adaptation will hail from Snowfall writer Aziza Barnes and Insecure’s Natasha Rothwell. That’s right: An official adaptation of Pride is in the works at HBO! 2020 may be, overall, a year of “don’t look at the news for the sake of your mental health,” but at least in the YA space, we have something good to share! This has been a great year for books that deserve recognition finally getting that recognition, and Pride by Ibi Zoboi is the latest.

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