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"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 that home exerts, even after the Yellow House was wiped off the map after Hurricane Katrina. The Yellow House expands...
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTIONA 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.In 1961, Sarah M. Broom’s mother Ivory Mae bought a shotgun house in the then-promising neighborhood of New Orleans East and built her world inside of it. It was the height of the Space Race and the neighborhood...
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Bringing together reporting, profiles, memoir and criticism from The New Yorker to present a bold and complex portrait of Black life in America, told through stories of private triumphs and national tragedies, political vision, and artistic inspiration throughout history.
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W 1961 roku Ivory Mae Broom kupiła dom we wschodniej części Nowego Orleanu. Miała dziewiętnaście lat i jako pierwsza w swojej najbliższej rodzinie została właścicielką domu - zgrzebnego, parterowego, z pokojami ułożonymi na przestrzał, ale własnego. W tym domu wychowała dwanaścioro dzieci, swoich i przybranych. A potem wraz z huraganem Katrina w 2005 roku nadeszła wielka woda i Żółty Dom zniknął. Jakby tam nigdy nic nie było....
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