BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//DC Hoos - ECPv6.3.5//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:DC Hoos X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://alumni.virginia.edu/dchoos X-WR-CALDESC:Events for DC Hoos REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20200308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20201101T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200309T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200309T210000 DTSTAMP:20240328T085112 CREATED:20200212T215726Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200212T215726Z UID:3192-1583780400-1583787600@alumni.virginia.edu SUMMARY:March Book Club: The Yellow House\, a Memoir by Sarah Bloom DESCRIPTION:Monday\, March 9th\n7:00pm\nSilver Diner Clarendon\n(Clarendon) \nFREE \nWe will be reading a 2019 National Book Award Winner: \nThe Yellow House: A Memoir by Sarah Broom \nDescription: 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. \nA 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. \nRegistration Coming Soon! \nFor more information\, please contact Simay Okyay (CLAS ‘14) at uvabookclub@dchoos.org URL:https://alumni.virginia.edu/dchoos/event/march-book-club-the-yellow-house-a-memoir-by-sarah-bloom/ CATEGORIES:Book Club END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR