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The Yellow House: A Memoir (2019 National Book Award Winner) (edição: 2019)

de Sarah M. Broom (Autor)

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"Sarah M. Broom's [memoir] The Yellow House 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."--… (mais)
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Título:The Yellow House: A Memoir (2019 National Book Award Winner)
Autores:Sarah M. Broom (Autor)
Informação:Grove Press (2019), Edition: 1st Edition, 304 pages
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The Yellow House: A Memoir de Sarah M. Broom

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When I look at you all, I don't really see the house, but I see what happened from the house. And so in that way, the house can't die.
p192

This is the memoir of a house. A house that was only yellow in its later years, but one that was in the Broom family for decades and one that represents so much more than just a house.

This house was situated in New Orleans East, a part of New Orleans that never appears on the tourist maps and was bought by Ivory Mae in 1961 with the insurance money she gained when her first husband died. It was a shotgun house (I didn't know what they were but this is a good explanation) and was never going to be big enough for all 12 children as they came and went over the years. It was also a house that was traduced by institutional racism, shame and the wear and tear of a large family along with mother nature having a good go at taking it back. Friends were never invited back to the house and Ivory Mae used to say,

You know this house not all that comfortable for other people.
p161

It wasn't always comfortable for the family.

You, kitchen, do not warm me. You, living room, do not comfort me. You, bedroom, do not keep me.
p153

But nor was New Orleans East comfortable.

Everything in the East slipped - into stasis, entropy, full-blown disrepair. The oil bust in the late 1980s led to a surplus of empty apartment buildings meant for employees who would work for booming industries that never materialized.
p143

When Hurricane Katrina swept through New Orleans, wiping it out, we all saw the images on our screens of people left, who didn't manage to escape or didn't want to, before the waters came in. Not everyone had somewhere else to go to and so it was the poor and the sick, the elderly and those who clung onto their possessions as they had so little, the majority of whom were Black and had to be rescued to an overcrowded centre. Broom was not in New Orleans at the time although her family were. This left her with guilt about not being there, worry about where some of her family members were and she became uncentred.

Broom then had a series of jobs which took her to New York, Berundi, to New Orleans but this time in the French Quarter where all the tourists flock, but couldn't settle. She was someone who had moved away and so didn't feel like she belonged anywhere, not her home city, not another country (Berundi is a little extreme) and not New York at that time. Perhaps, not even to herself. And then there was what Katrina did to the house. It split it apart and then the local government knocked it down. And New Orleans East changed.

The loss of the house untethered Broom and what follows is the howl of someone who can't seem to find her place. To me it reads not just about a loss of place but also comes from never knowing her father, he died before she was born, and something else that is never mentioned in the book. I don't know what it is but this restlessness seems to be due to more than this, although these things would be enough. I could be horribly wrong. Her family, who had all lived in New Orleans, were scattered across the country now, never to return so not only are people suffering with the loss of their home but also their family and community.

Broom has a degree in journalism, and this book is definitely written differently. Although the content is emotional, the style of writing isn't. It sounds rude to say it is flat but that's what it feels like. The writing does not go up and down with the emotions. In places, the small paragraphs and description feel like a photograph is being described, either real or imagined and there is some great use of different sentence constructions such as the imperatives in this section.

Find Lynette and me at the Charlie Parker Jazz Festival, swinging out at Marcus Garvey Park. Spot us in the crowded ampitheater.
p195

It's like looking at a photo and trying to identify them. In living for a year in the French Quarter, Broom acknowledges that she is looking for 'centrality, a leading role so to speak in the story of New Orleans'. If you look through the telephoto lens, it is also the story of America.

It is a perfect book for a book club and I am left with some questions.

Do we all define ourselves by where we come from?

A lot of this book focuses on the duality in Broom's life, the way they dressed versus the state of their home. Are there other examples of duality in the book and do we all have them?

How much does story of your family's past focus in the present day?

What family firsts do you remember or have had told to you? I can still remember the day my Nana ate her first ever yoghurt.

'Remembering is a chair that is hard to sit still in.' p223. Is it? ( )
  allthegoodbooks | Feb 9, 2024 |
Probably 4.5 Stars if that was an option. This was a very enjoyable read. The subject matter isn't always light and airy, by any means, but the descriptions of childhood impressions are vivid and magic, and paint scenes and moods with tangible detail. I especially liked her take on being found out as very nearsighted at the age of ten - almost identical to my own experience. She goes on to describe a revelation after getting glasses - "trees have leaves" - that is the exact same thing that happened to me. This author is someone I would really like to meet, someday - that would be quite interesting. I thought as it neared the end that the story wandered and repeated a bit, but that is a minor quibble. Highly recommended and deserving the praise it has received. ( )
  Cantsaywhy | Jun 20, 2023 |
I know this book has been widely acclaimed. I couldn’t get into it. ( )
  cathy.lemann | Mar 21, 2023 |
Aagh! Why did this have to return to the library when I had only 7% left?! When will I get to finish it?!!!

(Added: Three weeks later, the hold list got back to me and I finished it. I learned a bit about New Orleans. Glad I was able to get it back while I still remembered what was going on.) ( )
  CarolHicksCase | Mar 12, 2023 |
The Yellow House is a multi-generational, every day life (which is interesting because from her asides I think she could have gone a completely different way with the narrative), memoir of Sarah Broom's. It takes place mostly in New Orleans East and is a glimpse into American life that was often drastically different than my own. The tragedy of Hurricane Katrina is described and the appalling stories of people's actions in order to survive is as mind-boggling to me now as it was at the time it happened. I am glad she is able to tell this story. I do wish a family tree was included, and I would have liked to see more of the photos she described, if not in the book on a linked website. ( )
  bangerlm | Jan 18, 2023 |
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For the author Sarah M Broom, home was once New Orleans East where her widowed mother, Ivory Mae, bought a house in 1961 with her late husband's life insurance. Broom’s award-winning debut, The Yellow House (Corsair), is a history of a house, a family and a neighbourhood brought low by neglect, racism and inequality. The youngest of 12 children, she had moved away from the city by the time Hurricane Katrina hit, but she paints a harrowing picture assembled from the memories of her family. Their heartbreak is compounded by the city’s treatment of its residents: Mae's house was eventually demolished without her knowledge, the notification letter having been sent to the abandoned property.
adicionado por Cynfelyn | editarThe Guardian, Fiona Sturges (Nov 28, 2020)
 
The Yellow House has garnered well-deserved praise; it won a National Book Award and appeared on several "best of the year" lists. More than just a narrative about a family, it is a masterpiece of personal and social history, examining the devastating consequences of decades of government neglect and revealing the very weak foundations on which the American dream rests. Using oral history, forgotten pieces of journalism, photographs, deeds, and other artifacts, The Yellow House helps to fill in those painful "silent leaps," as Broom puts it, that fragment the history of her family and her home of New Orleans East.

By giving her family members space to tell their stories, Broom does far more than help knit this history back together. Like Hartman*, she also poses a set of vexing questions: How do you reconstruct the history of a place and a people whose importance has been deemed negligible (at best) by those in power? How do you use the archives to write the narrative of a life (or in this case, lives) without replicating the initial violence?

*Saidiya Hartman, "Venus in two acts".
adicionado por Cynfelyn | editarThe Nation, Lovia Gyarkye (May 5, 2020)
 
Sarah M. Broom is a writer of great intellect and breadth. She embraces momentous subjects. The Yellow House is about the relentless divestment of wealth from the African American family no matter how hard its members work; and our government's failure to protect its poor from predictable environmental catastrophe and subsequent trauma; and our gross neglect of poor neighborhoods; and sham promises that never materialize or are broken too easily, and the papering over of deep systemic problems by politicians and we the people.
 

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Remembering is a chair that is hard to sit still in. p223
You, kitchen, do not warm me. You, living room, do not comfort me. You, bedroom, do not keep me. p161
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