The yellow house

Title
The yellow house

Author
Broom, Sarah M., author.

ISBN
9780802125088

Edition
1st Grove Atlantic ed.

Physical Description
376 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

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.

Personal Subject
Broom, Sarah M.
 
Broom, Sarah M.-Family.

Subject Term
African American women authors -- Biography.
 
African Americans -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Biography.
 
African American families -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Biography.

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

Genre
Autobiographies

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. --


LibraryCall NumberStatus
Bayport Public Library920 BRONonfiction Collection
Hardwood Creek Library (Forest Lake)920 BRONonfiction Collection
Park Grove Library (Cottage Grove)920 BRONonfiction Collection
R.H. Stafford Library (Woodbury)920 BRONonfiction Collection
R.H. Stafford Library (Woodbury)920 BRONonfiction Collection
Stillwater Public Library920 BRONonfiction Collection