American · b. 1985
Angela Flournoy's debut novel "The Turner House" earned a 2015 National Book Award nomination for its portrait of a Detroit family facing their crumbling homestead's fate. The American author tracked thirteen siblings across decades of great migration, deindustrialization, and housing crisis, finding in one family's history the arc of Black America. Flournoy writes with documentary precision and novelistic warmth about homes as inheritances—financial, spiritual, architectural.