THE YELLOW HOUSE: A MEMOIR

THE YELLOW HOUSE: A MEMOIRIn 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 was home to a major NASA plant the postwar optimism seemed assured. Widowed, Ivory Mae remarried Sarah's father Simon Broom; their combined family would eventually number twelve children. But after Simon died, six months after Sarah's birth,

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