The Yellow House: WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION by Sarah M. Broom

The Yellow House: WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION

Sarah M. Broom

459 pages first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction history memoir emotional informative reflective slow-paced

Description

In 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 - th...

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reflective 86%
emotional 67%
informative 61%
sad 35%
challenging 28%
inspiring 15%
hopeful 11%
dark 8%
funny 5%
tense 5%
adventurous 2%

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medium 37%
fast 1%

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