The Yellow House: A Memoir (2019 National Book Award Winner)
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. 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. 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. 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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I don't understand why this book is highly rated. The author is not a good story teller, and much of the content should have been removed by a good editor.
My book group rarely agree on anything, but in this case only one person managed to get to the end, and none of us enjoyed it.
Maybe this is a book to be enjoyed by New Orleans natives only?
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