The Yellow House

Summary

A memoir of Broom's family and the modest yellow shotgun house her mother bought in New Orleans East in 1961, where she raised twelve children. Spanning a century of municipal neglect, racial inequity, and the destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina, the book uses one home as a lens onto the erasures of Black neighborhoods from the official map of the city. Broom blends family history, reportage, and architectural observation into a singular work.