![]() ![]() ![]() The novel received strong positive reviews. Style įlournoy gives considerable tribute to Zora Neale Hurston as an inspiration for her work, and reviewers made comparison of the novel to works like Hurston's Mules and Men. The house that sees the changes in the family, also becomes a character in the family's saga. The novel tells the story of a Detroit family with 13 children as it responds to the economic woes of the city, in both the 1940s, and then in 2008. Though Flournoy's father's family is originally from Detroit, she had not lived in the city, so did considerable research to be able to depict the different 20th century periods of life in Detroit depicted in the novel. The novel was shortlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction and later won the VCU First Novelist Award. The Turner House is a 2015 debut novel by Angela Flournoy. ![]()
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