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The yellow house / Sarah M. Broom.

Broom, Sarah M., (author.).

Summary:

"Sarah M. Broom's [memoir] The Yellow House 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."-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780802125088
  • ISBN: 0802125085
  • Physical Description: 376 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First Grove Atlantic edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic, 2019.

Content descriptions

Awards Note:
National Book Award for Nonfiction 2019
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.
Genre: Autobiographies.

Available copies

  • 4 of 4 copies available at Lehigh Carbon Library Cooperative.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 4 total copies.
Show Only Available Copies
Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Lower Macungie Library BIO BROOM (Text) 33400001470874 Adult Biography Available -
Parkland Community Library B BROOM BRO (Text) 34422007134790 Adult Biography Available -
Public Library of Catasauqua B BROOM (Text) 70000000129887 Adult Biography Available -
Whitehall Township Public Library B BROOM, SARAH M. BROO (Text) 36305002884576 Adult Biography Available -

Summary: "Sarah M. Broom's [memoir] The Yellow House 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."--

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