Tomorrow, author Angela Flournoy will read at the Helmert Stern Auditorium in UMMA at 5:30pm. The event is free and open to the public and will be followed by a signing. Angela Flournoy is the author of National Book Award Finalist, The Turner House, the story of a home and its family in Detroit. The house’s fate, after being the home to all thirteen Turner children, is being determined now that the matriarch of the family can no longer stay and with its monetary worth so much less than its mortgage. Angela Flournoy is a graduate of the Iowa Writing Workshop and one of the National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35.” There will also be Q&A section in the Hopwood Room in Angell Hall at 2:00pm.
