My adult equivalent of Saturday morning cartoons is reading a book in a blanket cocoon! Howβs your Saturday?
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The Yellow House: A Memoir by Sarah M. Broom
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Synopsis:
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In 1961, Sarah M. Broomβs 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 was home to a major NASA plantβthe postwar optimism seemed assured. Widowed, Ivory Mae remarried Sarahβs father Simon Broom; their combined family would eventually number twelve children. But after Simon died, six months after Sarahβs birth, the Yellow House would become Ivory Maeβs thirteenth and most unruly child.
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A book of great ambition, Sarah M. Broomβs The Yellow House tells a hundred years of her family and their relationship to home in a neglected area of one of Americaβs most mythologized cities. This is the story of a motherβs 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 the map of New Orleans to include the stories of its lesser-known natives, guided deftly by one of its native daughters, to demonstrate how enduring drives of clan, pride, and familial love resist and defy erasure. Located in the gap between the βBig Easyβ of tourist guides and the New Orleans in which Broom was raised, The Yellow House is a brilliant memoir of place, class, race, the seeping rot of inequality, and the internalized shame that often follows. It is a transformative, deeply moving story from an unparalleled new voice of startling clarity, authority, and power.
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Oh and I found this cozy blanket at @downlitebedding ! π Be sure to use the code βDYGEN15β & get 15% off!
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π xoxo, Kat
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P.S. Now it is time for the obligatory hashtag rant! πThanks for checking out this post! I β€οΈ #DownliteBedding ! I β€οΈ #diversespines π I am down with #blacknbookish #instareads #TheDownliteDifference Β #ownvoicesreviews #ownvoices & #booksharks ! Sincerely yours, #blackgirlreading ππΎ! Happy Reading! π
β π Now Reading π
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The Yellow House: A Memoir by Sarah M. Broom
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Synopsis:
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In 1961, Sarah M. Broomβs 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 was home to a major NASA plantβthe postwar optimism seemed assured. Widowed, Ivory Mae remarried Sarahβs father Simon Broom; their combined family would eventually number twelve children. But after Simon died, six months after Sarahβs birth, the Yellow House would become Ivory Maeβs thirteenth and most unruly child.
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A book of great ambition, Sarah M. Broomβs The Yellow House tells a hundred years of her family and their relationship to home in a neglected area of one of Americaβs most mythologized cities. This is the story of a motherβs 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 the map of New Orleans to include the stories of its lesser-known natives, guided deftly by one of its native daughters, to demonstrate how enduring drives of clan, pride, and familial love resist and defy erasure. Located in the gap between the βBig Easyβ of tourist guides and the New Orleans in which Broom was raised, The Yellow House is a brilliant memoir of place, class, race, the seeping rot of inequality, and the internalized shame that often follows. It is a transformative, deeply moving story from an unparalleled new voice of startling clarity, authority, and power.
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Oh and I found this cozy blanket at @downlitebedding ! π Be sure to use the code βDYGEN15β & get 15% off!
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π xoxo, Kat
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P.S. Now it is time for the obligatory hashtag rant! πThanks for checking out this post! I β€οΈ #DownliteBedding ! I β€οΈ #diversespines π I am down with #blacknbookish #instareads #TheDownliteDifference Β #ownvoicesreviews #ownvoices & #booksharks ! Sincerely yours, #blackgirlreading ππΎ! Happy Reading! π
