The Turner House by Angela Flournoy
The Turner House by Angela Flournoy The Turner family has owned the house on Yarrow for decades. Cha-Cha was seven when they moved in and all of the thirteen Turner children grew up within those walls. But it’s been a while since Francis, the patriarch of the Turner family, has passed. Viola, the matriarch well into her eighties, now lives in Cha-Cha’s home and the Yarrow house has been abandoned. Furniture “borrowed” by different family members has left most of the house bare. The “Big Room” where all of the children have once called their own, and where Cha-Cha, once fought a haunt has nothing but a twin bed and bare walls. What to do with the house that holds their memories when it is worth nothing more than the past it holds? The Turner House is a really well written novel that centers around what it means to be a family, to struggle with addiction, to contemplate ghosts and to move toward the present. Flournoy did an amazing job flush