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Broom, Sarah M.
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Broom, Sarah M.
Broom, Sarah M. -- Family.
Women authors, Black -- Biography.
Blacks -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Biography.
Families, Black -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Biography.
Blacks -- Biography.
National Book Awards.
New Orleans (La.) -- History -- 20th century.
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Broom, Sarah M.
Broom, Sarah M.
Broom, Sarah M. -- Family.
Women authors, Black -- Biography.
Blacks -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Biography.
Families, Black -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Biography.
Blacks -- Biography.
National Book Awards.
New Orleans (La.) -- History -- 20th century.
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The yellow house / Sarah M. Broom.
by
Broom, Sarah M.
Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic, 2019.
Call #:
814.6 B873y
Subjects
Broom, Sarah M.
Broom, Sarah M.
--
Family.
Women authors,
Black
--
Biography
.
Blacks
--
Louisiana
--
New
Orleans
--
Biography
.
Families
,
Black
--
Louisiana
--
New
Orleans
--
Biography
.
Blacks
--
Biography
.
National Book Awards.
New
Orleans
(La.)
--
History
--
20th century.
ISBN:
9780802125088 (hc.)
Edition:
1st Grove Atlantic ed.
Description:
376 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Summary:
"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."--From publisher.
Awards:
Winner of the National Book Award for Non-Fiction, 2019.
Genre:
Memoirs.
Holds:
1
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Alderney Gate Public Library
Adult Black Nonfiction
814.6 B873y
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Captain William Spry Public Library
Adult Black Nonfiction
814.6 B873y
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Captain William Spry Public Library
Adult Black Nonfiction
814.6 B873y
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Woodlawn Public Library
Adult Black Nonfiction
814.6 B873y
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Adult Black Nonfiction
814.6 B873y
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Central Library
Adult Black Nonfiction
814.6 B873y
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Halifax North Memorial Public Library
Adult Black Nonfiction
814.6 B873y
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Tantallon Public Library
Adult Black Nonfiction
814.6 B873y
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