You guys, the live and the stacks tour is underway.

We had an incredible night in Oakland filled with bookish conversations, hot takes, games,

cocktails. If you missed it, I'm sorry, but don't worry, it's not too late to see the stacks

live in one of our next four stops. Join me in Chicago with Samantha Erby on August 27th

in Washington, D.C. with Jason Reynolds on September 24th in New York City with KSA

layman on September 25th and in LA on October 18th with some extra special guests that we will be

announcing real soon. Tickets are selling fast so head to the stackspodcast.com slash tour and

get your tickets before we sell out.

Welcome to the stacks, a podcast about books and the people who read them. I'm your host,

Tracy Thomas and it is the stacks book club day. Today we are discussing Oreo by Fran Ross and to

help us do that. We've brought back the wonderful Hana Oliver dep co-owner and founder of loyalty

bookstores in the Washington D.C. area. Oreo is a wild romp of a satirical novel that was first

released in 1974. It follows the story of Oreo, a black and Jewish Philadelphia girl on her quest

for self-discovery and in search of her long lost father. Today we put the book and Fran Ross

in historical context. We talk about the ways Oreo fights against making meaning and categorization

and of course we dig into that title Oreo and yes folks there are spoilers on today's episode.

Make sure you listen to the end of the episode to find out what our July book club pick will be.

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

in the show notes and listen today Hana and I try to cram as much as possible into our discussion

of Oreo in about an hour but let me tell you if you want more discussion of this book

books in general the podcast the news whatever join the stacks pack on patreon we do a monthly

virtual book club so next week we're going to be talking in depth about Oreo with a bunch of

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