SARAH M. BROOM
he Yellow House (Grove Press, August), a debut memoir about the inexorable pull of home and family, set in a neglected New Orleans neighborhood where the author grew up with eleven siblings; a multigenerational examination of place, class, race, inequality—and love and survival. Agent: Jin Auh. Editor: Amy Hundley. First lines: “From high up, fifteen thousand feet above, where the aerial photographs are taken, 4121 Wilson Avenue, the address I know best, is a minuscule point, a scab of green.
