The Turner House by Angela Flournoy is a novel about a big American family with thirteen kids from Detroit and the house they all grew up in.
They are grown now, and the oldest brother Cha-Cha is seeing a psychiatrist because he believes he has been seeing a ghost, or a haint, as they are called down South where his parents are from. The house is empty now and in what's become a bad neighborhood in the city. Most of the siblings gather to decide whether to try to save it, or finally let it go.
This is a wonderfully written novel, memorable, full of well developed characters, linked together through history, family, place, desires. A great debut.
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