![]() It's a striking examination of the price we pay for our dreams and futures, and the ways in which our families bring us home. 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. The Turner children are called home to decide its fate and to reckon with how each of their pasts haunts - and shapes - their family's future. 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 house still stands despite abandoned lots, an embattled city, and the inevitable shift outward to the suburbs. ![]() Their house has seen thirteen children grown and gone - and some returned it has seen the arrival of grandchildren, the fall of Detroit's East Side, and the loss of a father. The Turners have lived on Yarrow Street for over fifty years. It’s also the crux of memories of their dead father and a link among 13 very different adults. ![]() ![]() For the 13 Turner siblings, the house on Detroit’s East Side isn’t just their childhood home. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST A powerful, timely debut, The Turner House marks a major new contribution to the story of the American family. THE TURNER HOUSE by Angela Flournoy RELEASE DATE: ApA complicated portrait of the modern American family emerges in Flournoy's debut novel. ![]()
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