The Turner House
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The Turner House

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ABOUT
THE BOOK

For over fifty years the Turners have lived on Yarrow Street. Their house has seen thirteen children get grown and gone-and some return; it has seen the arrival of grandchildren, the fall of Detroit’s East Side, and the loss of a father. But when their powerful mother falls ill, the Turners are called home to decide their house’s fate and to reckon with how their past haunts-and shapes-their future. The Turner House is a striking examination of the price we pay for our dreams, and the ways in which our families bring us home.

ABOUT
THE AUTHOR Angela
Flournoy

Angela Flournoy is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the University of Southern California. Her fiction has appeared in the Paris Review, and she has written for the New Republic, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and other publications. She has taught writing at the University of Iowa and Trinity Washington University.

She was raised by a mother from Los Angeles and a father from Detroit.

Photo by John Midgley

Angela Flournoy is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the University of Southern California. Her fiction has appeared in the Paris Review, and she has written for the New Republic, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and other publications. She has taught writing at the University of Iowa and Trinity Washington University.

She was raised by a mother from Los Angeles and a father from Detroit.

Photo by John Midgley

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NOMINATING LIBRARY COMMENTS

It’s 2008 in Detroit, and the thirteen adult Turner siblings must decide what to do with their family home, worth only one-tenth of its mortgage. Flournoy shines a light on the workings of a large family, while also creating a nuanced portrait of Detroit from the time the Turner patriarch arrived during the Great Migration to the 2008 recession. A beautifully written family saga.

Angela Flournoy’s critically acclaimed debut novel tells the story of a city, a family and their home as they navigate the changes taking place in the world around them. The reader sees how hard it is to escape the ghosts of the past as we experience the Turners’ struggle to cope with problems that are both unique to them and universal to all families.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Date published
01/03/2016
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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