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. 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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