The Turner house

Resource Information

The work The Turner house represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham Libraries. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

The Turner house

Statement of responsibility

Angela Flournoy

Creator

• Flournoy, Angela

Author

• Flournoy, Angela

Subject

• Fiction: general & literary
• General Fiction
• Historical fiction
• Modern & contemporary fiction
• Relating to African American people
• African American families -- Fiction
• Domestic fiction

Genre

• Fiction: general & literary
• General Fiction
• Historical fiction
• Modern & contemporary fiction
• Relating to African American people
• Fiction
• Domestic fiction

Language

eng

Summary

<DIV>A novel centered on the journey of the Turner family and its thirteen siblings, particularly the eldest and youngest, as they face the ghosts of their pastsboth an actual haint and the specter of addictionthe imminent loss of their mother, and the necessary abandonment of their family home in struggling Detroit</DIV>

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

813.6

Index

no index present

LC call number

PS3606.L6813

LC item number

T87 2016

Literary form

fiction

Summary expansion

"Flournoy's knockout debut is one of those books that should, by rights, be described as the Great American Novel." - NPRA New York Times Notable Book Named a Best Book of the Year byO, 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 "A page-turner. Richly wrought prose and intimate, vivid dialogue. A-." - Entertainment Weekly 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. "An epic that feels deeply personal . . . Flournoy's finely tuned empathy infuses her characters with a radiant humanity." - O, The Oprah Magazine "In this assured and memorable novel, [Flournoy] provides the feeling of knowing a family from the inside out, as we would wish to know our own." - New York Times Book Review