Sarah M. Broom is the guest. Her debut memoir, The Yellow House, is available now from Grove Press. Broom began her writing career as a newspaper journalist working in Rhode Island, Dallas, New Orleans and Hong Kong (for TIME Asia). She also worked as an editor at O, The Oprah Magazine for several years. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, O, The Oprah Magazine and elsewhere. In 2016, she received the prestigious Whiting Award for Creative Nonfiction. Broom has an undergraduate degree in anthropology and mass communications from the University of North Texas and a Master’s degree in Journalism from the University of California, Berkeley. A native New Orleanian, she is the youngest of twelve children, and now makes her home in New York City. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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