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The yellow house / Sarah M. Broom.

Broom, Sarah M., (author.).

Summary:

"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." -- Publisher's website.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780802149039
  • ISBN: 0802149030
  • Physical Description: v, 376 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm
  • Edition: First Grove Atlantic paperback edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Grove Press, 2020.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Includes reading group guide.
Subject: Broom, Sarah M.
Broom, Sarah M. > Family.
African American women authors > Biography.
African Americans > Louisiana > New Orleans > Biography.
African American families > Louisiana > New Orleans > Biography.
New Orleans (La.) > History > 20th century.
Genre: Biographies.

Available copies

  • 8 of 8 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 2 of 2 copies available at Stanly County Public Library.

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Albemarle Main Library 814.6 Bro (Text) 31010000816522 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Locust Branch Library B Broom (Text) 31011000336859 Adult Biography Available -