The yellow house
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New York : Grove Press, 2019.
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First edition, First Grove Press edition.
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376 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
976.355 BROOM 2019
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Sierra View Library - Adult Nonfiction
976.355 BROOM 2019
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976.355 BROOM 2019
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Published
New York : Grove Press, 2019.
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Book
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First edition, First Grove Press edition.
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In 1961, Sarah M. Brooms 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 plantthe postwar optimism seemed assured. Widowed, Ivory Mae remarried Sarahs father Simon Broom; their combined family would eventually number twelve children. But after Simon died, six months after Sarahs birth, the Yellow House would become Ivory Maes thirteenth and most unruly child. A book of great ambition, Sarah M. Brooms The Yellow House tells a hundred years of her family and their relationship to home in a neglected area of one of Americas most mythologized cities. This is the story of a mothers 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 the map of New Orleans to include the stories of its lesser known natives, guided deftly 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.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Broom, S. M. (2019). The yellow house (First edition, First Grove Press edition.). Grove Press.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Broom, Sarah M.. 2019. The Yellow House. Grove Press.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Broom, Sarah M.. The Yellow House Grove Press, 2019.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Broom, Sarah M.. The Yellow House First edition, First Grove Press edition., Grove Press, 2019.

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