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The yellow house / Sarah M. Broom.

Broom, Sarah M., (author.).

Summary:

"Sarah M. Broom's [memoir] 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."-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780802125088
  • ISBN: 0802125085
  • Physical Description: 376 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First Grove Atlantic edition.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic, 2019.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:
The world before me. Amelia "Lolo" ; Joseph, Elaine, and Ivory ; Webb ; Simon Broom ; Short end, long street ; Betsy ; The crown -- The grieving house. Hiding places ; Origins ; The grieving house ; Map of my world ; Four eyes ; Elsewheres ; Interiors ; Tongues ; Distances ; 1999 -- Water. Run ; Survive ; Settle ; Bury ; Trace ; Erase ; Forget ; Perdido -- Do you know what it means? Investigations. Sojourner ; Saint Rose ; Saint Peter ; McCoy ; Photo op ; Investigations ; Phantoms ; Dark night, Wilson ; Cutting grass -- After.

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Subject: Broom, Sarah M.
Broom, Sarah M. > Family.
African American women authors > Biography.
African Americans > Louisiana > New Orleans > Biography.
African American families > Louisiana > New Orleans > Biography.
New Orleans (La.) > History > 20th century.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.
African American families.
African American women authors.
African Americans.
Families.
Louisiana > New Orleans.
Genre: Autobiographies.
Biographies.
History.

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Summary: "Sarah M. Broom's [memoir] 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."--
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