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Sarah Broom’s 2019 memoir, “The Yellow House,” won the National Book Award
for non-fiction. Jeffrey Brown sits down with Broom to discuss her mother
and how an obsession with houses passed down two generations to the author
herself, why Broom doesn’t appear until 100 pages into the book and the
larger story she is telling about New Orleans East.
for non-fiction. Jeffrey Brown sits down with Broom to discuss her mother
and how an obsession with houses passed down two generations to the author
herself, why Broom doesn’t appear until 100 pages into the book and the
larger story she is telling about New Orleans East.
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