The Turner House

Meet the Turners: a big, complicated, loving, feuding, vibrant 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, 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 haunt – and shape – their family's future.

The Turner House brings us a colourful, complicated brood full of love and pride, sacrifice and unlikely inheritances, from the acclaimed author of The Wilderness.

*Shortlisted for the National Book Award*
*Shortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize*
*Winner of the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award*
*Winner of the Paterson Fiction Prize*

'Funny, heartbreaking, with the sort of characters you'll miss like family when you finish' - Elizabeth McCracken

'Flournoy is a magician. Here is a story that is charming and funny while being whip-smart and profound' - Tayari Jones

'An expansive and ambitious novel that descends through the generations of one family's history to achieve real poignancy and power' - TC Boyle

'An engrossing and remarkably mature first novel... There is a trace of Gabriel García Márquez' - New York Times

'An elegant and assured debut' - Washington Post

'Flournoy's finely tuned empathy infuses her characters with a radiant humanity' - O Magazine

'Flournoy's richly wrought prose and intimate, vivid dialogue make this novel feel like settling deeply into the family armchair' - Entertainment Weekly