Winner of the 2019 National Book Award for Nonfiction A New York
Times Bestseller Named a Notable Book of the Year by the New York
Times Book Review Named one of the "10 Best Books of 2019" by the
New York Times Book Review, Seattle Times, Chicago Public Library,
the Chicago Tribune, and Slate Named a Best Book of 2019 by the
Washington Post, NPR's Book Concierge, NPR's Fresh Air, the
Guardian, BookPage, New York Public Library, and Shelf Awareness
Named a Best Memoir of the Decade by LitHub 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. A book of great ambition, Sarah M. Broom's
The Yellow House tells a hundred years of her family and their
relationship to home in a neglected area of one of America's most
mythologized cities. This is the story of a mother's 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 "Big Easy" 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.
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