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 Mens 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 ALA1st 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 goneand some returned; it has seen the arrival of grandchildren, the fall of Detroits 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 hauntsand shapestheir familys 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. Its a striking examination of the price we pay for our dreams and futures, and the ways in which our families bring us home.