On This Ground Hardship and Hope at the Toughest Prep School in America Jhumpa Lahiri the ordinary mutates into the

the ordinary mutates into the uncanny—an enormous balloon hovers over the city

and her mother comes to school with her every day

Each day brings never-ending chores and drudgery

the Hokage

On This Ground Hardship and Hope at the Toughest Prep School in America Jhumpa Lahiri the ordinary mutates into theBy: Anthony DePalma Published by HarperCollins Publishers, 2026 02 03 For readers of Invisible Child and A Most Beautiful Thing, On This Ground is the remarkable story of hope, determination, and resilience at a celebrated school in Newark, the students who make it, and a community that refused to let their children's education become a casualty of a growing racial divide. In 1967, as the city of Newark, New Jersey, was engulfed by civil unrest after