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 colorful, complicated brood full of love and pride, sacrifice and unlikely inheritances. It's a striking examination of the price we pay for our dreams and futures, and the ways in which our families bring us home.

-National Book Award Finalist
-Nominated for the NAACP Image Awards, "Outstanding Literary Work – Debut Author"
-Winner, VCU Cabell First Novelist Award
-Finalist for the Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Award
-Finalist for the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award
-Short-listed for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize
-Short-listed for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction
-Short-listed for the Ernest Gaines Award
-Long-listed for the NBCC John Leonard Prize for A Debut Novel
-An Amazon Top 100 Editors' Pick of the Year
-A Michigan Notable Book 2016
-Black Caucus of the ALA—1st Novelist Award Winner
-A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
-A New York Times Editors' Choice