The Yellow House
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION
$43.63
- Hardcover
384 pages
- Release Date
8 November 2020
Summary
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION
‘A major book that I suspect will come to be considered among the essential memoirs of this vexing decade’ New York Times Book Review
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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781472155573 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1472155572 |
| Author: | Sarah M. Broom |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Corsair |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 8 November 2020 |
| Weight: | 520g |
| Dimensions: | 218mm x 144mm x 38mm |
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Critics Review
Part oral history, part urban history, part celebration of a bygone way of life, The Yellow House is a full indictment of the greed, discrimination, indifference and poor city planning that led her family’s home to be wiped off the map. It is an instantly essential text, examining the past, present and possible future of the city of New Orleans, and of America writ large - New York Times Book Review
This is a major book that I suspect will come to be considered among the essential memoirs of this vexing decade - New York TimesMasterful. Large-scale and granular at once. Quietly stunning prose. Wow.Sarah M. Broom’s gorgeous debut, The Yellow House, reads as elegy and prayer … Broom is a writer of great intellect and breadth - NPRGorgeously written, intimate and wise, Sarah M. Broom’s The Yellow House is an astonishing memoir of family, love, and survival. It’s also a history of New Orleans unlike any we’ve seen before, one that should be required readingAbout The Author
Sarah M. Broom
Sarah M. Broom is a writer whose work has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, the Oxford American, and O, The Oprah Magazine among others. A native New Orleanian, she received her Masters in Journalism from the University of California, Berkeley in 2004. She was awarded a Whiting Foundation Creative Nonfiction Grant in 2016 and was a finalist for the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Creative Nonfiction in 2011. She has also been awarded fellowships at Djerassi Resident Artists Program and The MacDowell Colony. She lives in New York state.
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