The Turner House MP3 CD – April 15, 2015
Author: Visit ‘s Angela Flournoy Page ID: 150461268X
Review
”An expansive and ambitious novel that descends through the generations of one family’s history to achieve real poignancy and power.” –T. C. Boyle, New York Times bestselling author of The Women
”Utterly moving and tough as nails, The Turner House is a love story as immense as the family it describes and as complicated as the city that made them. A clear-sighted ode to the bonds that make and break us, to resilience across generations, to shared joys and solitary struggles, Flournoy’s debut is as fresh and bold as they come.” –Ayana Mathis, New York Times bestselling author of The Twelve Tribes of Hattie
”The Turner House is a marvelous novel introducing a family of irresistible characters. Angela Flournoy is a magician – here is a story that is charming and funny while being whip-smart and profound. Laced through are the hard facts of history and the mysterious workings of the human heart. The magic begins with the extraordinary first chapter and lasts to the very last page. This is a thrilling debut from a writer to watch.” –Tayari Jones, author of Silver Sparrow
”A complicated portrait of the modern American family emerges in Flournoy’s debut novel…Flournoy’s writing is precise and sharp…The novel draws readers to the Turner family almost magnetically. A talent to watch.” —Kirkus Reviews
”Angela Flournoy’s brilliant [book] The Turner House is about no less than the joy and aggravation of being a human being in a large family, in a house, in a city, on this earth. This book is so beautifully written, so perfectly observed and heard – it’s about aging and parenthood and above all that misunderstood lifelong union, siblinghood – but it’s also pure pleasure to read: funny, heartbreaking, with the sort of characters you’ll miss like family when you finish. The Turner House is an absolutely wonderful novel.” –Elizabeth McCracken, author of The Giant’s House
”Angela Flournoy’s The Turner House is masterful: a novel full of history and lies and the myths that can bring a family together, or tear it apart. There are touches of grace and humor in this generous and humane portrait of a family, and a city, in transition. This is a beautiful, elegant, and living novel, one that you will savor until the last, moving paragraph.” –Daniel Alarcón, author of At Night We Walk in Circles
”Angela Flournoy’s extraordinary debut novel, The Turner House, is as compelling, unforgettable, and beautifully told a story as I’ve read in ages. The real and the supernatural, the hardships and hard won triumphs of the tightly knit, at times warring Turner clan will pull you close to this family’s generous, dignified heart. While each of the thirteen siblings (and their parents) could carry a book on his or her own, here they remain indelibly linked by the complicated bonds of history and belonging – and by the promises of their heartbreak city, Detroit.” –Cristina Garcia, author of Dreaming in Cuban
About the Author
Angela Flournoy‘s fiction has appeared in the Paris Review and she has written for the New Republic, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she received her undergraduate degree from the University of Southern California. She has taught writing at the University of Iowa and Trinity Washington University. She was raised in Southern California by a mother from Los Angeles and a father from Detroit.
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MP3 CD: 1 pagesPublisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.; Unabridged MP3CD edition (April 15, 2015)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 150461268XISBN-13: 978-1504612685 Product Dimensions: 0.6 x 5.2 x 7.8 inches Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies) Best Sellers Rank: #1,317,909 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #60848 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Literary
My first major impression of Angela Flournoy’s writing after reading her debut novel <i>Turner House</i> is that her third-person narrator’s tone and style remind me very much of the narrators in Jane Austen’s novels (i.e. textual examples from <i>Emma</i>, <i>Persuasion</i> and <i>Pride and Prejudice</i> formed the basis for this comparison as I read). I’ve never felt compelled to draw a comparison to Austen’s work before in reviewing a book, and I’ve read all of her work with the notable exception of <i>Mansfield Park</i>. I don’t want to strain the comparison too far. What I found was that the narrator of this story frequently employed the same type of wit seen often in Austen’s work, and Flournoy’s wit was every bit as sharp — in fact, I think Flournoy’s humor is richer and funnier.
Most significantly, Flournoy’s literary craft matched the best of Austen’s in her narrator’s equally effective deployment of sharp humor to fully achieve two objectives with unusual success:
(1) to richly contextualize the story — enriching the reader’s understanding of the peculiarities of its setting in time, place, class, culture, etc., and;
(2) as one of the chief literary techniques employed to add nuance and depth to her characters’ development with the virtue of both textual efficiency and vivid precision.
Regardless of whether you perceive any Austen-esque elements in <i>Turner House</i>, I believe that fans of Jane Austen’s novels — and/or just top-flight literary fiction in general — are highly likely to find reading it worthwhile because of these masterful qualities Flountroy displays in her debut.
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