New York: Grove Press, (2019) dj. Hardcover - The author's first book, winner of 2019 National Book Award. "In 1961, Sarah 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. . [this book] 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.. a brilliant memoir of place, class, race, the seeping rot of inequality." Illustrated with photographs, map endpapers. 376 pp. ISBN: 978-0802125088.