Sarah Broom's writing is phenomenal as she tells this highly personal, very specific story, which provides a broader commentary on her native city of New Orleans and all its dysfunction; on family and identity and belonging; on self-determination and much more. Beautifully written, Sarah tells us the story of her mother's yellow house in New Orleans East, of her family, of herself and her struggle to figure out her place in the world and her feelings about who she is, where she comes from, and where she might be going.