- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group Limited
- First published
- 2019
- Length
- ≈ 384 pages
- Reading time
- 10–13 hours
- ISBN
- 1472155580
Reading time assumes 30–40 pages per hour; edition and reading pace affect this estimate. Edition source
What is this book about?
The Yellow House is Sarah M. Broom’s memoir of her family, her childhood in New Orleans East and the loss of the house she grew up in after Hurricane Katrina. It traces the family back about a hundred years and looks at how the disaster changed both her relatives and her neighbourhood.
At its core the book examines race, class, politics, family, trauma and inequality in New Orleans and in America. It is Broom’s first book.
Source: The Yellow House (book)
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