Happy New Month! On this episode of BTWN The Lines with Ogo J., I am exploring the themes of disenfranchisement and gentrification in The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom. This is Sarah M. Brooms’s highly anticipated debut memoir that follows the story of her family in New Orleans East over the past 100 years. In this book we explore this family and their relationship to home in a neglected area of one of America’s most mythologized cities. Additionally, I used How to Kill a City by P.E. Moskowitz to reference the theme of gentrification and expand on some of the details of policies enacted after Hurricane Katrina. “The Yellow House is a brilliant memoir of place, class, race, the sleeping rot of inequality, and the internalized shame that often follows.”

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