The Yellow House: A Memoir (2019 National Book Award Winner)

A brilliant, haunting and unforgettable memoir from a stunning new talent about the inexorable pull of home and family, set in a shotgun house in New Orleans East. 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 c...show more

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400 pages

Average rating: 7.33

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semertens
Jan 05, 2024
Didn't finish
Holly Steele
Apr 27, 2022
Selected by BarbS. 3/16/2021
sbolstad
Jan 12, 2022
10/10 stars
This is a memoir. The author grew up in East New Orleans and her large family experienced "The Water" experience of Katrina.

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