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SUMMARY:Author Meet-and-Greet: Ellen Barker on “Nothing North of Delmar”
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LOCATION:Danforth Campus Bookstore, Mallinckrodt Center, Danforth University Center
DESCRIPTION:\nWhile on campus for her 50th Reunion\, alumna Ellen Barker\, AB '76\, will be promoting the first book in her new St. Louis-based series.\n\n\n\nIt's 1976\, the Bicentennial year and a watershed moment in America. The draft\, the Vietnam war\, Woodstock\, and the Summer of Love are long gone. Tie-dye is out\, and everyone has cut their hair. The Civil Rights Act has passed\, the Equal Rights Amendment is just a few states from ratification\, Roe v. Wade is firmly enshrined\, and closet doors are creaking open. The sixties have changed the world.\n\n\n\nOnly they haven’t\, as Novelle is about to find out. At this moment\, she arrives in St. Louis to start graduate school in economics\, a clear-cut field of mathematic problem sets with answers. Almost immediately\, she discovers that Delmar Boulevard is a Great Wall of China separating St. Louis into Black North and white South\, and that economics is the mortar between the bricks. She gets caught up in unraveling a plan to “take back” a Black neighborhood that has leaked over the divide. By the time she finishes her degree\, she is getting hate mail and death threats\, but she’s also come into her own as a force for change. A satirical\, witty look at a slice of history that still resonates today. \n\n\n\nThis event is free and open to all. At the Danforth Campus Bookstore\, located in the ground floor of Mallinckrodt Center.\n\n\n\n\nLearn more here.\n\n\n\n\n\n
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