The Resource The Yellow House : A Memoir (2019 National Book Award Winner)/, Sarah M. Broom, (electronic resource)
The Yellow House : A Memoir (2019 National Book Award Winner)/, Sarah M. Broom, (electronic resource)
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- Summary
- A NEW YORK TIMESIn 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. A book of great ambition, Sarah M. Broom?s The Yellow HouseThe Yellow House 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- Note
- Electronic book
- Isbn
- 9780802146540
- Label
- The Yellow House : A Memoir (2019 National Book Award Winner)/
- Title
- The Yellow House
- Title remainder
- A Memoir (2019 National Book Award Winner)/
- Statement of responsibility
- Sarah M. Broom
- Subject
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- African American families -- Louisiana | New Orleans -- Biography
- African American women authors -- Biography
- African Americans -- Louisiana | New Orleans -- Biography
- Autobiographies
- Biography
- Broom, Sarah M
- Broom, Sarah M. -- Family
- 1900-1999
- History
- New Orleans (La.) -- History -- 20th century
- Electronic books
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- A NEW YORK TIMESIn 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. A book of great ambition, Sarah M. Broom?s The Yellow HouseThe Yellow House 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
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- Broom, Sarah M.
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- Series statement
- National Book Award Winner
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- Broom, Sarah M
- Broom, Sarah M.
- African American women authors
- African Americans
- African American families
- New Orleans (La.)
- Label
- The Yellow House : A Memoir (2019 National Book Award Winner)/, Sarah M. Broom, (electronic resource)
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- Note
- Electronic book
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780802146540
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- Electronic reproduction.
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- Format: Adobe EPUB
- Requires: cloudLibrary (file size: 4.4 MB)
- Label
- The Yellow House : A Memoir (2019 National Book Award Winner)/, Sarah M. Broom, (electronic resource)
- Link
- Note
- Electronic book
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780802146540
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- uzggrz9
- Reproduction note
- Electronic reproduction.
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
-
- other
- remote
- System details
-
- Format: Adobe EPUB
- Requires: cloudLibrary (file size: 4.4 MB)
Subject
- African American families -- Louisiana | New Orleans -- Biography
- African American women authors -- Biography
- African Americans -- Louisiana | New Orleans -- Biography
- Autobiographies
- Biography
- Broom, Sarah M
- Broom, Sarah M. -- Family
- 1900-1999
- History
- New Orleans (La.) -- History -- 20th century
- Electronic books
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