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The Yellow House: A Memoir (2019 National Book Award Winner)

The Yellow House: A Memoir (2019 National Book Award Winner)

Broom, Sarah M.

Paperback

Series: National Book Award Winner

Biographies GeneralRegional: South

Publisher Price: $17.00

ISBN10: 0802149030
ISBN13: 9780802149039
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: Jun 30 2020
Pages: 400
Weight: 0.80
Height: 1.20 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.20
Language: English

Broom's intimate and historically detailed memoir about growing up in East New Orleans, including Katrina's impact on her childhood home, will leave readers reflecting on their own figurative and physical understanding of place and relationships that bring it to life. -Johanna

 

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Winner of the 2019 National Book Award in Nonfiction

A brilliant, haunting and unforgettable memoir from a stunning new talent about the inexorable pull of home and family, set in a shotgun house in New Orleans East.

In 1961, Sarah M. Broom's mother Ivory Mae bought a shotgun house in the then-promising neighborhood of New Orleans East and built her world inside of it. It was the height of the Space Race and the neighborhood was home to a major NASA plant--the postwar optimism seemed assured. Widowed, Ivory Mae remarried Sarah's father Simon Broom; their combined family would eventually number twelve children. But after Simon died, six months after Sarah's birth, the Yellow House would become Ivory Mae's thirteenth and most unruly child.

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