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

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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