{"id":6996,"date":"2015-06-23T08:55:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T15:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/this-must-be-the-place\/"},"modified":"2023-04-19T11:13:18","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T18:13:18","slug":"this-must-be-the-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/this-must-be-the-place\/","title":{"rendered":"This Must Be the Place"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n    \n            \n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--article-hero \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--article-hero\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n<div class=\"inner-wrapper\">\n  \n  \n  <div class=\"text-wrapper\">\n          <nav aria-label=\"Breadcrumb\" class=\"breadcrumbs\">\n        <ul>\n                      <li><a href=\"\/news\/stories\/\">News<\/a><\/li>\n                      <li><a href=\"\/news\/stories\/\/?category=alumni\">Alumni<\/a><\/li>\n                  <\/ul>\n   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He drove Flournoy and her sister around the East Detroit neighborhood where he had grown up, pointing out the locations of formative events in his life such as his baptism and his first fight.<\/p>\n<p>But each of these lots now lay empty, razed and abandoned during the intervening years, holding only the shadows of a once vibrant quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Though she grew up in Southern California, Flournoy has had an ongoing relationship with Detroit, where she still has extended family. Her experiences with the city have shaped her&rsquo; interests, both personal and writerly.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I am very interested in changing neighborhoods and how urban landscapes evolve,&rdquo; the alumna said. &ldquo;I think that as a country, we are in an era of rapid change that we haven&rsquo;t seen since the &rsquo;50s and &rsquo;60s and the rise of the suburbs. And Detroit is a place of extremes in many ways. While many cities have seen their inner-city income base or population dwindle, Detroit saw theirs completely decimated.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Fittingly, the Motor City became the backdrop for Flournoy&rsquo;s debut novel, <em>The Turner House <\/em>(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015). She started writing and researching the book in 2010 while working on her MFA at the <a href=\"http:\/\/writersworkshop.uiowa.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Iowa Writers&rsquo; Workshop<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The story was sort of always tied to Detroit, though it wasn&rsquo;t really a conscious decision. When I first got to Iowa I drove up to Detroit and visited the house my father grew up in. It was a place that left me with a lot of questions &mdash; how does this happen to a community?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><em>The Turner House<\/em> centers on a house on the east side of Detroit, home to the sprawling Turner Family over the course of 50 years. The city&rsquo;s history is richly researched, weaving in and among the lives of 13 children and their parents. The economic downturn of 2008 becomes a watershed moment for the house when the family members must reconvene to help determine its fate and the family&rsquo;s future.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m not a person who can write a novel based on ideas; I need to have people and a place,&rdquo; Flournoy explained. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s kind of clich&eacute; to say a character came to you, but I did have this image of a woman &mdash; my character Lelah &mdash; in a vacant house on the east side of Detroit. I wanted to know why she was there and who knew she was there. So that was sort of the beginning of the whole thing.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"news-image-portrait\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/migration-uploads\/Flournoy2-2087.jpg\" alt=\"Image Description\" width=\"225\" height=\"340\"><\/p>\n<p>Angela Flournoy&rsquo;s debut novel was published this April.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The novel has received accolades, garnering&nbsp;a Summer 2015 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/u\/discover-great-new-writers\/379003379\/\" target=\"_blank\">Barnes &amp; Noble Discover Great New Writers<\/a> selection, a May 2015 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/indie-next-list\" target=\"_blank\">Indie Next<\/a> pick and a <em>New York Times <\/em>Sunday Book Review&nbsp;Editor&rsquo;s Choice.&nbsp;Other fiction by Flournoy has appeared in <em>The<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Paris Review<\/em>, and she has written for&nbsp;<em>The New York Times,&nbsp;The New Republic<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>The Los Angeles Review of Books<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I have always known I&rsquo;m a writer. I&rsquo;ve always wanted that,&rdquo; said Flournoy, who earned her bachelor&rsquo;s in <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/engl\/\" target=\"_blank\">English<\/a> with an emphasis in creative writing at USC Dornsife in 2007 along with a degree in communication from <a href=\"http:\/\/annenberg.usc.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I took all of the fiction workshops you&rsquo;re allowed to take, then the advanced fiction workshop twice and an independent study.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Coming into USC as a Presidential Scholar, Flournoy took &ldquo;Introduction to Fiction Writing&rdquo; as a freshman with Professor of English <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cwphd\/aimee-bender\/\" target=\"_blank\">Aimee Bender<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I wrote poems in high school; they weren&rsquo;t good,&rdquo; Flournoy joked. &ldquo;But in Bender&rsquo;s class I realized that writing prose, I felt much more in command and it was much more suited to me. That really opened up for me while I was at USC.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Flournoy relished her writing classes with Bender, Professor of English <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cwphd\/marianne-wiggins\/\" target=\"_blank\">Marianne Wiggins<\/a>, and Writer-in-Residence and Distinguished Professor of English <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/2000\/t-c-boyle-jukebox\/\" target=\"_blank\">T.C. Boyle<\/a>. It was Boyle who encouraged her to pursue an advanced degree in creative writing at Iowa, his alma mater. He also wrote a blurb for her novel.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I never took an English class with more than 15 people, and having access to professors was really easy,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;They were very generous with their time.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>As a brand new alumna, former English professor David Lloyd introduced Flournoy to <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/videos\/faculty\/958\/no-stranger-to-fiction\/\">Dana Johnson<\/a>, associate professor of English, who had just begun teaching at USC Dornsife.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Dana Johnson didn&rsquo;t start teaching classes until just after I&rsquo;d graduated, but we corresponded and she read my manuscripts and gave me feedback. She certainly didn&rsquo;t have to do any of that because I was an alum at that point! But she did and it was amazing.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;When I look back at my time at USC, it was the perfect balance of academic rigor and enriching opportunities to grow as a social human. It&rsquo;s important to know how to relate to people on a human level, and it&rsquo;s a skill you can really hone at USC through your professors and other opportunities outside of the classroom.&rdquo;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USC Dornsife creative writing alumna Angela Flournoy \u201907 weaves together her fascination with history, the city of Detroit and the bonds of family in her debut novel, <em>The Turner House<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[264,210,685,1094],"class_list":["post-6996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","tag-alumni","tag-creative-writing","tag-dana-johnson","tag-t-c-boyle"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast 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