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Flournoy will read from "The Turner House," and take audience questions, from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, May 11 at the Central Library, 1000 Fourth Ave. Northwest Tap Connection and the African-American Writers Alliance will perform dance and poetry inspired by the novel. A book signing will follow the program.Love, sacrifice, pride, and unlikely inheritances; "The Turner House" is a compelling consideration of the price we pay for our dreams, and the ways in which our families bring us home.Growing up in California, Angela Flournoy often visited the place where her father is from, Detroit, Michigan. The fiction she read never depicted the experiences of people like her family -- working class African Americans who made up the majority of a city. "The Turner House" explores this American story.