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Pride and Protest

by Nikki Payne

A neighborhood protest turns into a modern romantic comedy

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    Phenomenal Book Club pick (November 2022)

    Selected as a Phenomenal Book Club pick for November 2022.

AlbakiReads Editorial

A neighborhood protest turns into a modern romantic comedy

Set amid disputes over development and affordability in Washington, DC, Nikki Payne’s contemporary retelling of *Pride and Prejudice* pairs a neighborhood-focused protest with a clash between Liza Bennett, a local DJ, and Dorsey Fitzgerald, the developer CEO she sets out to challenge. Their first encounter is shaped by mistaken identity; later, a viral meme complicates their public and personal lives. Family pressures and Dorsey’s experience as an adopted Filipino son in a wealthy white family add further context to this romance, whose central tension connects attraction with questions of belonging, public image, and who gets to shape a neighborhood.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in contemporary romantic comedies and retellings of *Pride and Prejudice*.
  • Readers drawn to romances set against neighborhood development and affordability disputes.
  • Readers interested in stories involving family dynamics and questions of belonging.

Themes

Romance and rivalryNeighborhood change and affordabilityBelonging and identityFamily dynamicsPublic image and protest

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Book overview

A Phenomenal Book Club pick for November 2022!

A woman goes head-to-head with the CEO of a corporation threatening to destroy her neighborhood in this fresh and modern retelling of Pride and Prejudice by debut author Nikki Payne.


Liza B.--the only DJ who gives a jam--wants to take her neighborhood back from the soulless property developer dropping unaffordable condos on every street corner in DC. But her planned protest at a corporate event takes a turn after she mistakes the smoldering-hot CEO for the waitstaff. When they go toe-to-toe, the sparks fly--but her impossible-to-ignore family thwarts her every move. Liza wants Dorsey Fitzgerald out of her hood, but she'll settle for getting him out of her head.

At first, Dorsey writes off Liza Bennett as more interested in performing outrage than acting on it. As the adopted Filipino son of a wealthy white family, he's always felt a bit out of place and knows a fraud when he sees one. But when Liza's protest results in a viral meme, their lives are turned upside down, and Dorsey comes to realize this irresistible revolutionary is the most real woman he's ever met.
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