"In Sebree's sensitive and tender hands, and with her probing intellect, this book's quest (and question) of home is captivating and at turns searing and spiritually uplifting. An intimate rendering of the life of a Black woman artist, in these pages genealogy is a journey, the heart is a map, and family is essential even when uncertain. Insightful, vulnerable, layered, and full of love, I highly recommend Turn (W)here ." --Imani Perry, National Book Award Winner and author of Back in Blues " Turn (W)here offers an expansive topography of home through history, cultural criticism, and lived experience. Chet'la Sebree's innovative essay collection is a compass pointing toward the truest north there is: the self. Sebree writes beautifully about belonging and becoming, and how wanderlust is a crucial part of the equation." --Michele Filgate, editor of What My Father and I Don't Talk About "In this expansive collection, Chet'la Sebree continues in the lineage of Dionne Brand, Katherine McKittrick, and Saidiya Hartman to trace and retrace home through language, and how it structures experience through form--travelogue, graph, testimony, autotheory. Turn (W)here charts new territory--an intimate geography that in the absence of a land, can form a sense and meaning of home.
" --Vanessa Angélica Villarreal, author of Magical Realism "With a poet's precision and care, Chet'la Sebree has crafted an intricate map of one woman's search for home, recording each site of self-creation, each path toward self-knowledge, each landmark of community and love and belonging. Turn (W)here is tender and playful, generous and fearless--a breathtaking essay collection that remains deeply rooted in history while forging ahead into the uncertain future." --Lilly Dancyger, author of First Love " Turn (W)here is an exquisitely observed and multifaceted collection of essays set off by Chet'la Sebree's searching nature. With meditations on family, history, friendship, and home, this magnificent book takes readers on a journey of discovery into what matters in the human experience. This is the sort of book that invites the reader to share with loved ones, compare notes, and read again." --Maurice Carlos Ruffin, author of The American Daughters "Chet'la Sebree's latest essay collection is a millennial meditation on desire--to belong, to know one's self and to bring life into this world. Sebree filets tender truths from the bones of a life lived wandering. This book is a hearty feast for those of us at midlife starved for direction.
" --Minda Honey, author of The Heartbreak Years.