Yellow House: WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION

In 1961, Sarah M. Broom's mother, Ivory Mae, purchased a shotgun house in New Orleans East. The house became Ivory Mae's thirteenth and most unruly child after Simon died six months after Sarah's birth. The Yellow House is a memoir of place, class, race, the seeping rot of inequality, and the internalized shame that often follows, written by Sarah M. Broom. It is a transformative, deeply moving story from an unparalleled new voice of startling clarity, authority, and power.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 384 pages
Publication date: 08 April 2021
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group

A New York Times bestseller and the recipient of the National Book Award for Nonfiction, Sarah M. Broom's The Yellow House is a significant work that is destined to be regarded as one of the essential memoirs of this challenging decade.

In 1961, Sarah M. Broom's mother, Ivory Mae, purchased a shotgun house in the then-upcoming New Orleans East neighborhood and constructed her entire world within it. It was the height of the Space Race, and the neighborhood was home to a significant NASA facility - the postwar optimism seemed assured.

Widowed, Ivory Mae remarried Sarah's father, Simon Broom; their combined family would eventually number twelve children. However, after Simon died, six months after Sarah's birth, the house would become Ivory Mae's thirteenth and most unruly child.

The Yellow House, a book of tremendous ambition, chronicles a century of Sarah M. Broom's family and their connection to home in a neglected area of one of America's most mythologized cities. This is the story of a mother's struggle against the entropy of a house, and that of a prodigal daughter who left home only to reckon with the pull that home exerts, even after Hurricane Katrina wiped the Yellow House off the map.

The Yellow House expands the map of New Orleans to include the stories of its lesser-known natives, deftly guided 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.

Weight: 302g
Dimension: 126 x 198 x 31 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781472155597