A complicated portrait of the modern American family emerges in Flournoy's debut novel. For the 13 Turner siblings, the house on Detroit's East Side isn't just their childhood home. It's also the crux of memories of their dead father and a link among 13 very different adults. But the house has built up debt, their ill mother, Viola, lives elsewhere, and a question hangs—what to do with the Yarrow Street house? Flournoy's writing is precise and sharp, and despite several loose ends—Troy doesn't experience significant emotiona l change by the book's end, and the house's fate remains unclear—the novel draws readers to the Turner family almost magnetically. A talent to watch.--Kirkus
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