The yellow house
Broom, Sarah M.2020
Book
In 1961, Sarah M. Broom's mother Ivory Mae bought a shotgun house in the then-promising neighbourhood of New Orleans East and built her world inside of it. It was the height of the Space Race and the neighbourhood 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 house would become Ivory Mae's thirteenth and most unruly child.
Main title:
The yellow house / Sarah M. Broom.
Author:
Broom, Sarah M., author
Work:
Imprint:
London : Corsair, 2020.
Collation:
vi, 376 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
Notes:
Originally published: New York: Grove Press, 2019.
Awards:
National Book Award 2019 for Nonfiction
ISBN:
9781472155573 (hbk)
Dewey class:
818.609BBRO
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
464525