Praise for The Yellow House'[An] extraordinary, engrossing debut . . . kinetic and omnivorous . . . Part oral history, part urban history, part celebration of a bygone way of life, The Yellow House is a full indictment of the greed,...

THE AWARD-WINNING BESTSELLER 'Gorgeously written, intimate and wise . . . an astonishing memoir of family, love, and survival' Jami Attenberg, author of All Grown UpIn 1961, Sarah M. Broom's mother Ivory Mae bought a shotgun house in the...

A Guardian Book of the YearA Sunday Times Book of the YearOne of Barak Obama's Books of the Year'A brilliant account of life before and after Hurricane Katrina . . . Monumental' The Sunday TimesIn 1961, Sarah M. Broom's widowed mother...

A 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. von Broom, Sarah M.