NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST
A New York Times Notable Book • An Amazon Top 100 Editors' Pick of the Year
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 • Detroit Free Press
Winner of the Paterson Fiction Prize and the Black Caucus of the ALA—1st Novelist Award
Nominated for the International Dublin Literary Award, the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Debut Author, and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Fiction
Finalist for the New York Public Library Young Lions Award, the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, and the Indies Choice Award
Short-listed for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction, the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, the Ernest Gaines Award, The Morning News Tournament of Books, the Winter Lariat List, and the Medici Book Club Prize
Long-listed for the NBCC John Leonard Prize for A Debut Novel and the Chautauqua Prize
A powerful 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 Detroit’s 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 family’s future.
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. 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.
National Book Award Finalist Nominated for the NAACP Image Awards, "Outstanding Literary Work – Debut Author"
Short-listed for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction
Nominated for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Awards, Fiction
One of the National Book Foundation’s "5 Under 35"
Short-listed for the 2015 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize
Finalist for the 2016 New York Public Library Young Lions Award
Winner of the 2016 Paterson Fiction Prize
Finalist for the VCU Cabell First Novelist ?Award
Short-listed for the Ernest Gaines Award Short-listed for The Morning News 2016 Tournament of Books Long-listed for the NBCC John Leonard Prize for A Debut Novel Long-listed for the 2016 Chautauqua Prize ?Nominated for the International Dublin Literary Award 2017
An Amazon Top 100 Editors' Pick of the Year A New York Times Notable Book of 2015 A New York Times Editors' Choice New York Times Paperback Row
Short-listed for the Winter 2015 Lariat List Short-listed for the Medici Book Club Prize
A Michigan Notable Book 2016 Black Caucus of the ALA—1st Novelist Award Winner Finalist for the 2016 Indies Choice Awards One of O, The Oprah Magazine's "10 Favorite Books of the Year" One of Entertainment Weekly's "10 Best Books of 2015" An NPR "Best Book of 2015" One of Buzzfeed's "The 24 Best Fiction Books of 2015" One of Bustle's "2015’s 25 Best Books, Fiction Edition" A Publishers Weekly "Best Book of 2015" A Kirkus "Best Fiction Books of 2015" An Essence's "Best Books of 2015" A Time Out New York "Best Book of 2015" A Detroit Free Press "Must-read novel of 2015" A Literary Hub "Best Book of 2015" One of Men’s Journal’s “The 35 Best Books of 2015” One of the
The Week's "Best Fiction Books of 2015"
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Denver Post “Best Fiction Book of 2015”
One of BookPage's "Best Books of 2015" A Kobo.com "Must-Read Fiction Debut of 2015" BAM Top Pick for Spring 2015 May 2015 Indie Next Title One of Literati Bookstore's "Best Books of 2015" Morning Sun Bestseller “An engrossing and remarkably mature first novel...Flournoy’s prose is artful without being showy. She takes the time to flesh out the world...In her accretion of resonant details, Flournoy recounts the history of Detroit with more sensitivity than any textbook could...Flournoy gets at the universal through the patient observation of one family’s particulars. In this assured and memorable novel, she provides the feeling of knowing a family from the inside out, as we would wish to know our own.”—
New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice
"The Turner House speeds along like a page-turner. Flournoy’s richly wrought prose and intimate, vivid dialogue make this novel feel like settling deeply into the family armchair."—
Entertainment Weekly (Grade: A-)
“Flournoy has written an epic that feels deeply personal...Flournoy’s finely tuned empathy
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Angela Flournoy is the author of The Turner House, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, a finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, an Indie Next pick, and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Her fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, and she has written for The New York Times, The New Yorker, Los Angeles Times, and elsewhere. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Flournoy has taught at the University of Iowa, Princeton University, and UCLA. She lives in New York.
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