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The Yellow House by Sarah M Broom review – memoir as rich social history Sarah M Broom’s father, Simon, with her siblings outside their house at 4121 Wilson Avenue in 1977. Photograph: Sarah M. Broom’s gorgeous debut, The Yellow House, reads as elegy and prayer. The titular house is the fulcrum for Broom’s memoir about her large and complex family. Perhaps more important, it stands in for the countless ways America has failed and continues to fail African Americans Sarah M. Broom is a writer of great intellect. 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. NYT Best Seller Writer Sarah M. Broom, Author of The Yellow House. NYT Best Seller Writer Sarah M. Broom, Author of The Yellow House. THE YELLOW HOUSE. 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER 2019 JOHN LEONARD AWARD FOR BEST FIRST BOOK RECIPIENT & NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. This is Sarah M. Broom’s powerful memoir THE YELLOW HOUSE. As you read her flowing thoughts, you will discover not only her intimate relationship with a structure that held her family and friends together but what it came to symbolize to her and her family after it was laid waste post natural disaster.
2020-09-28T00:28:01-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/e2c/20200928003259002_hd.jpgSarah Broom discussed her National Book Award-winning memoir, The Yellow House. This program was part of the 20th annual National Book Festival, a virtual event hosted by the Library of Congress.Sarah Broom discussed her National Book Award-winning memoir, The Yellow House. This program was part of the 20th annual National Book Festival, a virtual event hosted by the Library of Congress.
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