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Zusatztext A great! multigenerational family story . . . Broom is an engaging guide; she has some of David Simon's effortless reporting style! and her meditations on eroding places recall Jeannette Walls. The house didn't survive Katrina! but its destruction strengthened Broom's appreciation of home. Broom's memoir serves as a touching tribute to family and a unique exploration of the American experience Informationen zum Autor Sarah M. Broom is a writer whose work has appeared in the New Yorker , the New York Times Magazine , the Oxford American , and O, The Oprah Magazine among others. A native New Orleanian, she received her Masters in Journalism from the University of California, Berkeley in 2004. She was awarded a Whiting Foundation Creative Nonfiction Grant in 2016 and was a finalist for the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Creative Nonfiction in 2011. She has also been awarded fellowships at Djerassi Resident Artists Program and The MacDowell Colony. She lives in New York state. Klappentext A Guardian Book of the Year A Sunday Times Book of the Year One of Barak Obama's Books of the Year 'A brilliant account of life before and after Hurricane Katrina . . . Monumental' The Sunday Times In 1961, Sarah M. Broom's widowed mother Ivory Mae bought a shotgun house in New Orleans East and built her world inside of it, raising twelve children with her new husband . When he died, six months after Sarah's birth, the house would become Ivory Mae's thirteenth and most unruly child. The Yellow House tells a hundred years of the author's family and their relationship to home in a neglected area of one of America's most mythologised 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. The Yellow House is an astonishing 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. 'Reading The Yellow House will not exactly resurrect 4121 Wilson Avenue. Nor will it repair what has been done to New Orleans and its inhabitants . . .[but] these pages might inspire you to sit with your mother, your grandmothers . . . to gather with your siblings for an evening on the stone slab where once your childhood home stood. With The Yellow House , Sarah Broom has shown us a way to go back home, perhaps to heal.' Casey Gerald, Observer Book of the Week 'Pared down to its studs, The Yellow House is a love story. It is a declaration of unconditional devotion and commitment to place' Los Angeles Times Vorwort A brilliant, haunting and unforgettable memoir of home and family, from a stunning new talent, set in a shotgun house in New Orleans. Zusammenfassung A brilliant, haunting and unforgettable memoir of home and family, from a stunning new talent, set in a shotgun house in New Orleans....
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Part oral history, part urban history, part celebration of a bygone way of life, The Yellow House is a full indictment of the greed, discrimination, indifference and poor city planning that led her family's home to be wiped off the map. It is an instantly essential text, examining the past, present and possible future of the city of New Orleans, and of America writ large Angela Flournoy New York Times Book Review
