![]() Anxiety crackled off of people like static. On the morning that Detroiters began to realize the skirmish on Twelfth and Clairmount had morphed into something larger, Cha-Cha and his fellow line workers went to the plant as usual. This thirteenth and final pregnancy might have been the most memorable event of the summer if only Detroit, the country, and maybe even the entire world had seen a different July. In June of that year Viola announced she was pregnant again, at forty years old. In the summer of 1967, when Cha-Cha was twenty-three, he worked at the Lynch Road Assembly Plant putting together Dodge Chargers. Her fiction has appeared in the Paris Review, and she has written for the New Republic, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and other publications. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and the University of Southern California. ![]() ![]() Flournoy was a 2015 National Book Award finalist as well as part of the National Book Foundation's 5 under 35. The following is from Angela Flournoy’s novel, The Turner House. ![]()
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