Book Chat: The Turner House

Join us for our new fiction book discussion group, Book Chat! We will discuss a wide variety of fiction. Register with your email to be added to our list to receive news about the group. Books will be available to pick up from the Book Club shelf at the library. Please register through the event calendar.

February's meeting will take place on the 14th in the conference room on the 2nd floor. We'll be discussing National Book Award finalist, The Turner House, by Angela Flournoy.

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, 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 haunts--and shapes--their family's 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. 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.