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Author Broom, Sarah M., author.

Title The yellow house / Sarah M. Broom.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic, 2019.
©2019

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  92 BROOM    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Biographies  92 BIOGRAPHY BROOM    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield at the Atrium  BIOG. BROOM, S.    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  BIOG. BROOM, S.    Claims Returned
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  B BROOM, SARAH    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  BIO BROOM FAMILY    Check Shelf
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Adult Department  BIOGRAPHY BROOM, SARAH M.    Check Shelf
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Adult Department  B BROOM S.    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  B BROOM SARAH B    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  B BROOM    Check Shelf

Edition First Grove Atlantic edition.
Description 376 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
National/regional group: nat Louisianians lcdgt
National/regional group: nat New Yorkers (New York State) lcdgt
Gender group: gdr Women lcdgt
Contents 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.
Summary This memoir is about the inexorable pull of home and family, set in a neglected New Orleans neighborhood. In 1961, Sarah M. Broom's mother, Ivory Mae, a fiercely determined and recently widowed nineteen-year-old, invested her life savings in a shotgun house in then-promising neighborhood of New Orleans East. It was the height of the Space Race and the area was home to a major NASA plant. The optimism of postwar America seemed endless. In the Yellow House, Ivory Mae and her second husband, Simon Broom, who would be Sarah's father, built domestic tranquility one wobbly renovation at a time, their dreams perpetually under construction. The family would eventually number twelve children. When Simon died, six months after Sarah's birth, the Yellow House became Ivory Mae's thirteenth and most unruly child. A brilliant interweaving of reporting, archival research, and gorgeously rendered family lore, The Yellow House tells the story of a mother's struggle against a house's entropy, and that of a daughter who left home only to be continually pulled back, even after the house was wiped off the map by Hurricane Katrina. This book transforms the Yellow House of Ivory Mae's creation into an emblem of civic apathy. She revises the map of New Orleans to include its lesser-known residents, a native daughter deftly demonstrating how the 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, this is an eye-opening memoir of place, identity, race, the insidious rot of inequality, and the internalized shame that often follows.--description from dust jacket.
Bibliography Includes photograph references
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. (OCoLC)fst00799152
African American women authors. (OCoLC)fst00799477
African Americans. (OCoLC)fst00799558
Families. (OCoLC)fst01728849
Louisiana -- New Orleans. (OCoLC)fst01204311
Autorin (DE-588)4258697-5
Familienbeziehung (DE-588)4133734-7
Schwarze Frau (DE-588)4286929-8
New Orleans, La. (DE-588)4042008-5
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Autobiographies.
Autobiographies. (OCoLC)fst01919894
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Autobiographies.
Other Form: Online version: Broom, Sarah M., author. Yellow house First edition. New York : Grove Press, [2019] 9780802146540 (DLC) 2019019639
ISBN 9780802125088 (hardcover)
0802125085 (hardcover)
9780802149039 (paperback)
0802149030 (paperback)
9780802146540 (electronic book)
Standard No. 40029323995
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