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A powerful timely debut The Turner House marks a major new contribution to the story of the American family The Turners have lived on Yarrow Street for over fifty years Their house has seen thirteen children grown and gone-and some returned it has seen the arrival of grandchildren the fall of Detroits East Side and the loss of a father The house still stands despite abandoned lots an embattled city and the inevitable shift outward to the suburbs But now as ailing matriarch Viola finds herself forced to leave her home and move in with her eldest son the family discovers that the house is worth just a tenth of its mortgage The Turner children are called home to decide its fate and to reckon with how each of their pasts haunts-and shapes-their familys future Already praised by Ayana Mathis as utterly moving and un-putdownable The Turner House brings us a colorful complicated brood full of love and pride sacrifice and unlikely inheritances Its a striking examination of the price we pay for our dreams and futures and the ways in which our families bring us home
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ANGELA FLOURNOY is the author of The Turner House, which is long-listed for the National Book Award, a finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, a Summer 2015 Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, a May 2015 Indie Next pick and a New York Times Sunday Book Review Editors' Choice. Her fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, and she has written for The New York Times, The New Republic and The Los Angeles Times.
A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Flournoy has taught at the University of Iowa and The Writer's Foundry at St. Joseph's College in Brooklyn. She was raised in Southern California by a mother from Los Angeles and a father from Detroit.
