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

The Yellow House: A Memoir is an evocative and poignant narrative by Sarah M. Broom, who was honored with the prestigious 2019 National Book Award. In this remarkable memoir, Broom shares her deeply personal story rooted in New Orleans, exploring themes of home, identity, and family through the lens of her childhood house, which stood in the heart of a neighborhood now unrecognizable due to the ravages of time and disaster. Her poetic prose captures the resilience of the...

The Yellow House: A Memoir is an evocative and poignant narrative by Sarah M. Broom, who was honored with the prestigious 2019 National Book Award. In this remarkable memoir, Broom shares her deeply personal story rooted in New Orleans, exploring themes of home, identity, and family through the lens of her childhood house, which stood in the heart of a neighborhood now unrecognizable due to the ravages of time and disaster. Her poetic prose captures the resilience of the human spirit amidst a backdrop of both beauty and decay, painting a vivid portrait of a place that is as much a character in her story as the people who inhabited it. This memoir is not just an account of loss and nostalgia but a celebration of what it means to belong and the enduring ties that bind us to our origins.