The Yellow House A Memoir Review

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Sarah M Broom Bio

Broom’s The Yellow House is a feat—a memoir and historical narrative created amid governmental bureaucracy and resistance from some of her subjects. ‘The Yellow House’ a gripping memoir about blood, water and skin Mention New Orleans and most people think of the French Quarter, with its cast-iron balconies, rowdy bars, street musicians. ‘The Yellow House’ by Sarah M. Broom is an absorbing debut that is both memoir and commentary about her New Orleans East family in a pre and post-Hurricane Katrina world. Broom’s writing style is inviting, filled with facts, and enough descriptive detail to keep me engaged. The Yellow House: A Memoir (2019 National Book Award Winner). In The Yellow House, a National Book Award finalist, Broom reflects on the history of the New Orleans East neighborhood and her family’s existence in it. “My beginning precedes me,” she writes, as.

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