Sarah Broom’s 2019 memoir, “The Yellow House,” won the National Book Award for non-fiction. Jeffrey Brown sits down with Broom to discuss her mother and how an obsession with houses passed down two ...

There are a handful of world-stage cities that outsiders assume they not only know but deeply understand — even if they’ve never once set foot there. Subsumed in myth, these boldfaced locations ...

We may receive a portion of sales if you purchase a product through a link in this article. The Yellow House reads like the best family lore, the kind passed down through generations — the ...

Sarah Broom in her family’s living room mirror. (© Sarah M. Broom and the Broom family) Archives have always been contested spaces. Who and what gets recorded often has more to do with those in power ...

One of the year’s best memoirs, The Yellow House finds an epic, fascinating, empathetic history of New Orleans within the life of one woman, her family, and the home they grew up in. Author Sarah M.

Sarah M. Broom grew up in a yellow house in New Orleans East, 10 minutes from the French Quarter, the youngest of 12 children. The house was bought by her mother in 1961 and grew into something more ...

Broom at the 2019 National Book Awards in New York City. Photo: Greg Allen/Invision/AP/Shutterstock Sarah M. Broom won the National Book Award for Nonfiction on ...

Home. Those four letters teem with such meaning it’s a miracle they don’t collapse under the weight. Home can manifest in the intangible — a sound, a scent — or the concrete (four walls, the feel of ...

Sarah M. Broom was writing long before Hurricane Katrina. What would ultimately become her memoir, The Yellow House, started as a collection of notes and essays on the house she grew up in, her family ...

Sarah M. Broom's debut memoir The Yellow House tells the sprawling tale of a family in New Orleans East and the home that was wiped away by Hurricane Katrina. She talks with NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer.

There are a handful of world-stage cities that outsiders assume they not only know but deeply understand — even if they’ve never once set foot there. Subsumed in myth, these boldfaced locations ...

Fourteen years ago, Hurricane Katrina wrecked Sarah M. Broom’s home and tore up her city. Her new memoir, “The Yellow House,” is an intimate look at a family that was scattered across America, but ...