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Sarah Broom’s memoir is an exploration of how different people define home as well as the role that home plays in shaping a person’s life. Sarah defines home as the house she grew up in on Wilson Avenue in New Orleans East, which she calls the Yellow House. Her concept of home is largely connected to this specific place. When the house itself is destroyed, Sarah feels homeless. She writes: “I had no home. Mine had fallen all the way down. I understood, then, that the place I never wanted to claim had, in fact, been containing me. We own what belongs to us whether we claim it or not. When the house fell down, it can be said, something in me opened up” (232). The physical loss of the house is inherently connected to her emotional loss of home for Sarah and this becomes a pivotal...