{"product_id":"the-yellow-house-a-memoir-2019-national-book-award-winner-9780802125088","title":"The Yellow House: A Memoir (2019 National Book Award Winner)","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2019 National Book Award for Nonfiction\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Bestseller\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed a Notable Book of the Year by the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed one of the \"10 Best Books of 2019\" by the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSeattle Times\u003c\/i\u003e, Chicago Public Library, the \u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSlate\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed a Best Book of 2019 by the \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, NPR's \u003ci\u003eBook Concierge\u003c\/i\u003e, NPR's Fresh Air, the \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBookPage\u003c\/i\u003e, New York Public Library, and \u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed a Best Memoir of the Decade by \u003ci\u003eLitHub\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA 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.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA book of great ambition, Sarah M. Broom's \u003ci\u003eThe Yellow House\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eThe Yellow House\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Yellow House\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Grove Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/13\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780802125088\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.40w x 1.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal Prepub Alert\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2019 pg. 93\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/15\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/13\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2019 pg. 125\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2019 pg. 16\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/03\/2019\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Sarah M. Broom","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":38027614716085,"sku":"9780802125088","price":22.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_2b48a2fb-ee87-4eeb-9120-33915bb81fc4.jpg?v=1609193315","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-yellow-house-a-memoir-2019-national-book-award-winner-9780802125088","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}