Angela Flournoy’s 2016 debut novel The Turner House begins with a haunting: it is 1958, and Cha-Cha, the eldest of Francis and Viola Turner’s 13 children claims that “a ghost—a haint, if you will—tried to pull (him) out of the big room’s second-story window.” Cha-Cha’s 3-year-old brother Lonnie is the one who draws the house’s whole attention to the inc…
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