A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSLLER Winner of the 2019 National Book Award in 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.
It was the height of the Space Race and the neighborhood was.
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.
In 1961, Sarah M.
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSLLER Winner of the 2019 National Book Award in 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