THE YELLOW HOUSE

A brilliant, haunting and unforgettable memoir from a stunning new talent about the inexorable pull of home and family, set in a sho tgun house in New Orleans East.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 N ASA plant?the postwar optimism seemed assured. Widowed, Ivory Mae remarried Sarahs father Simon Broom/ their combined family would eventually n...[Read more]