(Paperback)

Troost is a real street. East of it is where you can buy a house if youre Black. Its also where our middle-aged white narrator grew upand where she has just returned to reboot her life. How will she fare in this vastly changed world This fictional story, punctuated by factual memoir, is by turns soul-searching, entertaining, and heartbreaking.

(Paperback)

When Marianne is abruptly laid off from her tech job during a recession, she's forced to move back to the seedy Kansas City neighborhood she thought she'd left forever. As she applies for jobs in an industry that doesn't value the middle-aged, Marianne must rally her inner strength to rebuild her life again.