CSPAN2 National Book Festival - Sarah Broom The Yellow House July 12, 2024
I am sarah broom and i am in harlem. I wrote the yellow house to answer what is at once a basic but also important question about who belongs, whose stories get told. I wanted to speak into a void in the literature. I wondered why the stories of me and my family and my 50 nieces and nephews didnt exist in the narrative of new orleans. I wanted to make a book that was the beginning of an answer to a question about how our lives mattered and how we deserved to also be on the american map, and then the city story of itself. This book is not only a book about a house that i lived in and that i lov...