Book Discussion Group - VIA ZOOM

Please join the Rotary Book Discussion Group on Zoom for the discussion of the book The Yellow House by Sarah Broom.  The book is available by mail order through the Rainy Day Books web site or call the store for curb-side pick up.  The discussion will be led by Vivien Jennings.  All Rotarians and guests are welcome.

About the book:

The Yellow House tells a hundred years of Sarah Broom’s family and their relationship to home in a neglected area of one of America's most mythologized cities, New Orleans. 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. The Yellow House expands the map of New Orleans to include the stories of its lesser known natives, guided deftly by one of its native daughters, to demonstrate how enduring drives of clan, pride, and familial love resist and defy erasure. Located in the gap between the "Big Easy" of tourist guides and the New Orleans in which Broom was raised, The Yellow House is a brilliant memoir of place, class, race, the seeping rot of inequality, and the internalized shame that often follows. It is a transformative, deeply moving story from an unparalleled new voice of startling clarity, authority, and power.