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ANGELA FLOURNOY is the author of The Wilderness. Her debut novel, The Turner House, was a finalist for the National Book Award. The novel won the VCU Cabell First Novel Prize and was also a finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and an NAACP Image Award. Her nonfiction has appeared in many publications, including The New York Times, The Nation, The Los Angeles Times and The New Yorker.

A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Flournoy has taught at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, The New School, Columbia University, Princeton University and the University of California at Los Angeles. She is a faculty member in the low-residency MFA program at Warren Wilson College.

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	The Turner House 3.63 avg rating — 18,239 ratings — published 2015 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Not Without Laughter by Langston Hughes, Angela Flournoy (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 4.23 avg rating — 3,778 ratings — published 1930 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Wilderness 3.54 avg rating — 4,232 ratings — published 2025 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	It Occurs to Me That I Am America: New Stories and Art by Jonathan Santlofer (Editor), Viet Thanh Nguyen (Goodreads Author) (Introduction), Julia Alvarez (Goodreads Author) 3.62 avg rating — 479 ratings — published 2018 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beirut Fragments: A War Memoir by Jean Said Makdisi, Angela Flournoy (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 119 ratings — published 1990 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nadia: Excerpted from The Mothers by Brit Bennett (Goodreads Author), Angela Flournoy (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The Black Girl's Guide to Living on Purpose For Women by Brieanna Lightfoot Smith, Angela Flournoy (Goodreads Author) (Photographer) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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New Year, New Anthem?

On the first of the year I wrote an Op-Ed in the New York Times about Australian "acknowledgement of country," and why the United States needs new rituals. Read it here.

Also, back in August I wrote about Kanye West and his interest in blurring the lines between art and commerce for The Nation.

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“Humans haunt more houses than ghosts do.”
― Angela Flournoy, The Turner House

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“Here is the truth about self-discovery: it is never without cost.”
― Angela Flournoy, The Turner House

tags: challenges, costs, self-discovery

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“The things we do in the name of protecting others are so often attempts to spare some part of ourselves.”
― Angela Flournoy, The Turner House

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The Truth About Awiti by C.P. Patrick

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