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Discuss a nonfiction book virtually! This month's title is The Yellow House, by Sarah M. Broom. Register online, by phone, or in person to receive a Zoom program link.
The Yellow House, by Sarah M. Broom
Winner of the 2019 National Book Award in Nonfiction, The Yellow House is 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.
A book of great ambition, Sarah M. Broom’s memoir tells a hundred years of her family and their relationship to home in a neglected area of one of America’s most mythologized cities.
This is the story of a mother’s struggle against a house’s entropy, and that of a prodigal daughter who left home only to reckon with the pull that home exerts, even after the Yellow House was wiped off the map after Hurricane Katrina.
The Yellow House expands the map of New Orleans to include the stories of its lesser known natives, demonstrating how enduring drives of clan, pride, and familial love resist and defy erasure.
Other memoirs available from the library:
Small Fry, by Lisa Brennan-Jobs
Body of water: a sage, a seeker, and the world's most alluring fish, by Chris Dombrowski
Sid Meier's memoir!: a life in computer games, by Sid Meier; written with Jennifer Lee Noonan
This program will be presented on Zoom.
You will receive an e-mail with the participation weblink at least one day before the program. Please contact the Library if you are unable to attend.
If you do not have an e-mail address, please contact Northwest Akron Branch at 330.836.1081 to learn how to participate by phone.
A webcam and microphone may be necessary to participate fully in this interactive event. If you have one or neither of these, your participation may be limited.
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