New Orleans – Heartlands

12 December 202012 December 2020Alex Joyner

#9 – The Yellow House–Heartlands 2020 Best Reads

Sarah Broom earned rave reviews in 2019 with The Yellow House. It’s a memoir of one Black family’s experience in New Orleans East, built around the frame of a shotgun house that did not survive Katrina. It’s a dreamy sort of book, and by that I mean elusive. But the storytelling and the characters are […]

20 January 202027 January 2020Alex Joyner

The Long Shadow of The Yellow House

It’s hard to say, even 370 pages later, what the yellow house means to Sarah Broom. As a substantial structure about which to tell a story of a place, it’s not much to look at—a shotgun house in New Orleans East, ultimately ravaged by Katrina and razed to the ground. For most of the second […]