Date: Sunday, July 17, 2016
Time: 4:00 - 6:00 PM
Location: Vinotecca, 417 S Main St, Royal Oak, Michigan 48067
Cost: Everyone pays for themselves
Parking: Free on Sundays
Point of contact: Irina Sullivan irina.n.sullivan@gmail.com
Other info:
Discussing "All Beautiful Things" by Nicki Salcdo
Review of The Turner House by Angela Flournoy
Review by Beth Nunning
The Turner House is the story of an African American family that moved from the south to the east side of Detroit in the 1940’s. Since job prospects offered opportunity for life outside of a farm, the patriarch of the family moved to Detroit to earn money to send for the wife and child he left behind. The book alternates between telling the story in the 1940’s to the present day when the child and his 12 brothers and sisters are older adults with children and grandchildren of their own. The Turner house, on Yarrow Street in Detroit was the cramped family house the father worked so hard to gain, to only have the effects of the Detroit Riots and the White Flight turn the neighborhood unsafe and the house practically worthless.
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