The Yellow House (2020)

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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. 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.

ISBN:: 9781472155580
Length:: 384 pages

Genres: biography

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Brown Girl ReadingDec 2023

Mixed

I didn't particularly enjoySarah and broom's writing in the first half of the book it really felt likea lot of he said she said they went there they did this it didn't have alot of literary feeling to it didn't start to be a bit more literaryuntil we got Midway in to the end

abookoliveNov 2023

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But, they also published The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom, which is the story of this author's family and their family home in New Orleans, also known as the Yellow House, that was very sadly lost during Hurricane Katrina.

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MercysBookishMusingsJan 2023

Mixed

I thought there were section of this which were just so poetic and so beautiful and I think the way in which she describes members of her family is breathtaking and she can really capture a person and a place I think maybe this was just a bit too long and maybe it needed to be edited down a little bit

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getbookishAug 2020

Liked

if you were looking to pick up this book i would still say do it because there are many interesting things that you get to learn about and hear about just know that at least i found the second half or slightly less than the second half of the book to be a bit weaker

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