All right, we are down to our last three cities for the live in the stacks tour, and if the first two stops were any indication, you do not want to miss this tour.

I will be in Washington, D.C. with Jason Reynolds on September 24th. I will be in New York City with KSA layman on September 25th, and I will be in Los Angeles on October 18th with three guests.

Yes, three guests, three of my favorite friends of the podcast, Rachel Lindsay, Chelsea Devantes, and Sam Sanders.

The show promises a night of big laughs, hot takes, and more bookish conversation than you could possibly imagine.

Tickets are selling fast, so head to the stackspodcast.com slash tour right now before they sell out.

Welcome to the stacks, a podcast about books and the people who read them. I'm your host Tracy Thomas, and today we welcome Andrea Elliott.

She's an investigative reporter for The New York Times and the winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction for her incredible book, Invisible Child, Poverty Survival, and Hope in an American City.

The book started as a five-part series for The Times, and it's about homelessness in New York, and it tells the story of a young girl named Dessani.

Andrea reported on Dessani and her family for eight years culminating in this book, a book that I loved so much I had to have Andrea on the podcast.

We talk about how she reported and wrote this incredibly readable book, The Ethics in Journalism, and what it means to Andrea to be the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in both journalism and letters.

Quick reminder, everything we talk about on each episode of the stacks can be found in the link in the show notes.

Don't forget, our book club pick for September is The Trees by Percival Everett. Make sure to listen to that episode on September 28th with our guest, Lisa Lucas.

If you love the show and want more of it, head to patreon.com slash the stacks to join the stacks pack. You'll get bonus episodes of the show, like our most recent one with good friend of the pod, Cree Miles.

Plus our virtual book club meetups are bookish discord and a lot more. If those perks sound exciting to you or you just really want to show love for this little black woman run indie book podcast, head to patreon.com slash the stacks to join.

Thank you to some of our newest members, TM Tate, Ashley Aluko, Emily Chalik, Marla Horton, and Jessica Muscle White.

Thank you all so much and thank you to every single member of the stacks pack.

All right, now it's time for my conversation with Andrea Elliott.

All right, everybody. I am so excited today. I have Andrea Elliott, who is the author of Invisible Child, which won the Pulitzer Prize.

It's the reigning Pulitzer Prize champion of the world or whatever that is. Andrea, welcome to the stacks.

Oh, thank you so much for having me. That was a lovely introduction.

I'm so excited. So I have to tell you just a quick story about how how come you're on the show, like almost a year after your book came out, which is I bought the book last year leading up to the holidays.

And I was like, okay, everyone says it's good. I'm going to read it. I didn't read it. As you know, I read for work. So sometimes I just like can't get to everything.

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