East of Troost : A Novel
by
Ellen Barker
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1647422299
ISBN-13
9781647422295
Publisher
She Writes Press
Imprint
She Writes Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 6th, 2022
Print length
328 Pages
Weight
424 grams
Dimensions
14.00 x 21.60 x 2.50 cms
Product Classification:
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Ksh 2,350.00
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Under the guise of a starting-over story, this novel deals with subtle racism today, overt racism in the past, and soul-searching about what to do about it in everyday living. East of Troost''s fictional narrator has moved back to her childhood home in a neighborhood that is now mostly Black and vastly changed by an expressway that displaced hundreds of families. It is the area located east of Troost Avenue, an invisible barrier created in the early 1900s to keep the west side of Kansas City white, ''safely'' cordoned off from the Black families on the east side. When the narrator moves back to her old neighborhood in pursuit of a sense of home, she deals with crime, home repair, and skepticism - what is this middle-aged white woman doing here, living alone? Supported by a wise neighbor, a stalwart dog, and the local hardware store, we see her navigate her adult world while we get glimpses of author Ellen Barker''s real life there as a teenager in the sixties, when white families were fleeing and Black families moving in - and sometimes back out when met with hatred and violence. A regional story with universal themes, East of Troost goes to the basics of human behavior: compassion and cruelty, fear and courage, comedy and drama.
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