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The Yellow House

A Memoir (2019 National Book Award Winner)

Sarah M. Broom

This haunting memoir explores the pull of home and family, focusing on an ambitious mother who buys a shotgun house in New Orleans East during the height of the Space Race. After the death of her second husband, the Yellow House becomes her thirteenth and most unruly child. This memoir tells a hundred years of family relationships against the history of New Orleans, guiding readers through the city's lesser-known natives and the enduring drives of clan, pride, and familial love that defy erasure. It is a transformative, deeply moving story from an unparalleled new voice of startling clarity, authority, and power.
Publish Date
2019-08-13T00:00:00.000Z
2019-08-13T00:00:00.000Z
Goodreads Rating
3.9
ISBN
9780802149039
Recommendations
3
Recommendations
2020-07-09T13:56:14.000Z
I loved @sarahmbroom's The Yellow House. I couldn't put the book down. And everyone should read @imaniperry _More Beautiful and More Terrible_!      source
2021-03-18T14:06:02.000Z
@sarahmbroom I thought I was already following you! Looking forward to the event--loved your book. ❤️      source