Access Inspiration – A Virtual Monthly Book Club for Women – September Book: The Yellow House: A Memoir by Sarah M. Broom

Dearest TWIBC Sisters,

Please join this monthly book club that includes a private Facebook group where we can share our thoughts as we’re going through the book then come together virtually for a discussion on the third Tuesday of the month from 4pm-5:30pm PT.

Our next gathering will be via Zoom on September 15th. **Even if you haven’t read the book you’re welcome to join us.**

To do so request to join:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/AccessInspirationBookClub/

The September book is: “The Yellow House: A Memoir (2019 National Book Award Winner)” by Sarah M. Broom

Here is a description:

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

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.

In 1961, Sarah M. 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. It was the height of the Space Race and the neighborhood was home to a major NASA plant―the postwar optimism seemed assured. Widowed, Ivory Mae remarried Sarah’s father Simon Broom; their combined family would eventually number twelve children. But after Simon died, six months after Sarah’s birth, the Yellow House would become Ivory Mae’s thirteenth and most unruly child.

A book of great ambition, Sarah M. Broom’s The Yellow House tells a hundred years of her family and their relationship to home in a neglected area of one of America’s most mythologized cities. 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.

To read more about this book please go to:  https://amzn.to/2EzMKQt

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Please feel free to reach out with any questions: Anastasia@AccessSpeakers.biz

There is no fee to participate, but I would appreciate getting your feedback along the way on how I can better run and manage a virtual book club which will be helpful when I create one through my business for speakers.

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