Sarah M Broom
Author
Language
English
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2024 Reading Challenge - June Adult
[Lasell] Memoirs
Medfield Memoirs for Adults - Critically Acclaimed
National Book Awards
[Lasell] Memoirs
Medfield Memoirs for Adults - Critically Acclaimed
National Book Awards
Formats
Description
"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...
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bringing together reporting, profiles, memoir and criticism from The New Yorker to present a bold and complex portrait of black life in America, told through stories of private triumphs and national tragedies, political vision, and artistic inspiration throughout history.