Overview
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. Broomās 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 plantāthe postwar optimism seemed assured. Widowed, Ivory Mae remarried Sarahās father Simon Broom; their combined family would eventually number twelve children. But after Simon died, six months after Sarahās birth, the Yellow House would become Ivory Maeās thirteenth and most unruly child.
A book of great ambition, Sarah M. Broomās The Yellow House tells a hundred years of her family and their relationship to home in a neglected area of one of Americaās most mythologized cities. This is the story of a motherās struggle against a house's entropy, and that of a prodigal daughter who left home only to reckon with the pull that home exerts, even after the Yellow House was wiped off the map after Hurricane Katrina. The Yellow House expands the map of New Orleans to include the stories of its lesser known natives, guided deftly by one of its native daughters, to demonstrate how enduring drives of clan, pride, and familial love resist and defy erasure. Located in the gap between the āBig Easyā of tourist guides and the New Orleans in which Broom was raised, The Yellow House is a brilliant memoir of place, class, race, the seeping rot of inequality, and the internalized shame that often follows. It is a transformative, deeply moving story from an unparalleled new voice of startling clarity, authority, and power.
This book title, The Yellow House (A Memoir (2019 National Book Award Winner)), ISBN: 9780802149039, by Sarah M. Broom, published by Grove Atlantic (June 23, 2020) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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