The yellow house / Sarah M. Broom.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Broom, Sarah M., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Broom, Sarah M.

Broom, Sarah M--Family.

African American women authors--Biography.

African American women authors.

African Americans--Louisiana--New Orleans--Biography.

African Americans.

African American families--Louisiana--New Orleans--Biography.

African American families.

New Orleans (La.)--History--20th century.

New Orleans (La.).

Families.

Louisiana--New Orleans.

Genre:

Biographies.

History.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

376 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First Grove Atlantic edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic, 2019.

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.

Contents:

The world before me. Amelia "Lolo" ; Joseph, Elaine, and Ivory ; Webb ; Simon Broom ; Short end, long street ; Betsy ; The crown

The grieving house. Hiding places ; Origins ; The grieving house ; Map of my world ; Four eyes ; Elsewheres ; Interiors ; Tongues ; Distances ; 1999

Water. Run ; Survive ; Settle ; Bury ; Trace ; Erase ; Forget ; Perdido

Do you know what it means? Investigations. Sojourner ; Saint Rose ; Saint Peter ; McCoy ; Photo op ; Investigations ; Phantoms ; Dark night, Wilson ; Cutting grass

After.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Anonymous gift.

Other Format:

Online version: Broom, Sarah M., author. Yellow house

ISBN:

9780802125088

0802125085

OCLC:

1057862027