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Sarah M. Broomwon the National Book Award for Nonfictionon Thursday night at the National Book Foundations annual awards ceremony.
In this room tonight, my mother, Ivory Mae, poet in her own right.
How I learned that words were the best map.
Make me know, my mother was always saying, in between raising 12 humans.
I am in this room … semicolon … and so is my mother.
She talked about listening to the recordings of interviews they had done while she was working onThe Yellow House.
His saying, You grew up on Wilson Avenue in the East, baby, you could handle anything.
And this honor will buoy me as I make the next one.
