The Turner House by Angela Flournoy, 341 pages.A great book filled with interesting characters that follows the Turner family and their house on Yarrow Street through the fifty years the family lived there. Several years after their father, Francis, has died, and their mother, Viola, has moved in with her oldest son, the Turner children must decide what to do with their childhood home. It's in a depressed part of Detroit, and thanks to some unwise mortgage decisions, it's only worth a tenth of what is owed to the bank. The narrative jumps back and forth through time adroitly, telling the story of Francis and Viola's rocky early years, through the childhoods of the 13 siblings, and into their current lives, filled with schemes, misunderstandings, and interesting situations. A great read.
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