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A review by gabsalott13
The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom
5.0
YALL...this is hands-down my favorite book of 2019.
In this astounding debut, Sarah M. Broom puts on her robe to tell the story: of her mother’s thirteenth child (“The Yellow House”), of a disinvested community she places in the center of the city’s map (“the East”), and of her own fight to understand and claim her home.
Everywhere she goes—North Texas, Harlem, Burundi, Ray Nagin’s City Hall—there is New Orleans East, there is the short side of Wilson, and there is The Yellow House. I am certain her words and family will remain with me during my upcoming travels, too. As y’all see, I spent a month with this book, just because I didn’t want it to end!!
I am hoping to post a full review over break—there’s so much she does in under 400 pages, and I haven’t even scratched the surface here. Like always, the South has something(s) to say!!!
In this astounding debut, Sarah M. Broom puts on her robe to tell the story: of her mother’s thirteenth child (“The Yellow House”), of a disinvested community she places in the center of the city’s map (“the East”), and of her own fight to understand and claim her home.
Everywhere she goes—North Texas, Harlem, Burundi, Ray Nagin’s City Hall—there is New Orleans East, there is the short side of Wilson, and there is The Yellow House. I am certain her words and family will remain with me during my upcoming travels, too. As y’all see, I spent a month with this book, just because I didn’t want it to end!!
I am hoping to post a full review over break—there’s so much she does in under 400 pages, and I haven’t even scratched the surface here. Like always, the South has something(s) to say!!!