National Book Award Finalist Nominated for the NAACP Image Awards, 'Outstanding Literary Work – Debut Author' Short-listed for the PEN/Robert W.

“In this assured and memorable novel, provides the feeling of knowing a family from the inside out, as we would wish to know our own.” - New York Times Book Review Flournoy’s finely tuned empathy infuses her characters with a radiant humanity.” - O, The Oprah Magazine 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. 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. 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. A–.” - Entertainment Weeklyįor over fifty years the Turners have lived on Yarrow Street. Richly wrought prose and intimate, vivid dialogue. Named a Best Book of the Year by O, The Oprah Magazine * Entertainment Weekly * NPR * Essence * Men’s Journal * Buzzfeed * Bustle * Time Out * Denver Post * Publishers Weekly * Kirkus Reviews * BookPage * Literary Hub * Kobo * The Week “Flournoy’s knockout debut is one of those books that should, by rights, be described as the Great American Novel.” - NPR

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