The Turner House (42 page)

A mi hermana Yuly Restrepo: abrazos a vos por todo.

Thank you to my girlfriends Zoé Zeigler, Vallery Lomas, Sophia Williams, Jasmine Alexander, and all of my Somerville family. Let's keep shining. To Gene Demby, PostBourgie mastermind, for nudging me to see issues differently and inspiring me to hustle harder.

To Stephanie Parker, Kiana Butler, and Martinique Williams: happy ten years to us! Thank you to my Sorors from the Upsilon Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated, for your constant cheerleading, and for letting me crash on couches near and far.

Thank you to John Roussel for our decade.

To my younger siblings, Jordan Harmon and Joy Flournoy, thank you for being constant sources of happiness. To my older sister, Candice Marie Flournoy, you showed me how to love hard and laugh harder. We made it.

A
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is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she received a Dean's Fellowship, and the University of Southern California. She has taught writing at the University of Iowa and Trinity Washington University and has worked for the District of Columbia Public Library. She was raised in Southern California by a mother from Los Angeles and a father from Detroit.

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