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"A powerful, timely debut, The Turner House marks a major new contribution to the story of the American family. 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...

Meet James Samuel Vincent, an affluent Manhattan attorney who shirks his modest Irish American background but hews to his fathers meandering ways. James muddles through a topsy-turvy relationship with his son, Rufus, which is further complicated when Rufus marries Claudia Christie. Claudias motherAgnes Miller Christieis a beautiful African American woman who survives a chance encounter on a Georgia road that propels her into a new life in the Bronx....

When an African American family decides to spend the summer in a small beach town, they discover that they are being stalked by evil doppelgängers of themselves.

"In 1961, Sarah M. Broom's mother Ivory Mae bought a shotgun house in the then-promising neighborhood of New Orleans East and Built her world inside of it. It was the height of the Space Race and the neighborhood was home to a major NASA plant-- the postwar optimism seemed assured. Widowed, Ivory Mae remarried Sarah's father Simon Broom; their combined family would eventually number 12 children. But after Simon died, six months after Sarah's birth,...

A tale inspired by The Great Gatsby is set in the contemporary South and follows the difficulties endured by an extended black family with colliding visions of the American dream. A first novel by the author of We Are Taking Only What We Need.

Jason and Josh are bound together by the death of their father. Jason puts the past behind him but Josh lives a life full of fear and violence. Jason's responsibilities to Josh eventually interfere with his own dreams for the future, leading to the destruction of both.

This poignant coming-of-age story, based on an autobiographical novel, traces one eventful year in fourteen-year-old Newt's life. He learns about love, fear, violent racial injustice, and his own capacity for honor.

Follows four generations of African American women from slavery to the early twentieth century as they struggle for economic security and the future of their families along the Cane River in rural Louisiana.