Sarah M Broom
Author
Publisher
Grove Atlantic
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Formats
Description
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
WINNER OF THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION
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.
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
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