The Yellow House A Memoir 2019 National Book Award Winner A Memoir (2019 National Book Award Winner)

Name: The Yellow House A Memoir 2019 National Book Award Winner
Author: Sarah M Broom

Auteur: Sarah M Broom

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Sarah M Broom

Engels
Paperback
9780802149039
30 juni 2020
400 pagina's

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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Winner of the 2019 National Book Award in Nonfiction A brilliant, haunting and unforgettable memoir from a stunning new talent about the inexorable pull of home and family, set in a shotgun house in New Orleans East. In 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 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. The Yellow House expands the map of New Orleans to include the stories of its lesser known natives, guided deftly by one of its native daughters, to demonstrate how enduring drives of clan, pride, and familial love resist and defy erasure. Located in the gap between the Big Easy of tourist guides and the New Orleans in which Broom was raised, The 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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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 30 juni 2020
Aantal pagina's: 400
Illustraties: Met illustraties

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Hoofdauteur: Sarah M Broom
Hoofduitgeverij: Black Cat

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Verpakking breedte: 137 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 30 mm
Verpakking lengte: 208 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 363 g

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