An interview with East of Troost's Ellen Barker

Author interview · 1 Aug 2022

East of Troost by Ellen Barker

The novel's inspiration, possible pushback, books on racism that moved her, and her next St Louis novel.

A novel set in a mostly Black Kansas City neighbourhood east of Troost Avenue, drawing on the author's teenage years in the 1960s and imagining a different future for her childhood home.