Book Review | Nothing to Write Home About: Sarah M. Broom’s "The Yellow House"
Originally published on Bayou Brief, October 6, 2019
The yellow house – where author Sarah M. Broom grew up and for which she named her memoir, The Yellow House – used to be green, back when Broom’s mother, Ivory Mae, purchased it with insurance money from her first husband’s death.
A teenage widow and mother to three small boys, Ivory moved into the house in a pocket of New Orleans East wedged between rai…
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