OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK • A magnificent new novel from the bestselling award-winning author of
An American Marriage —Tayari Jones has written an unforgettable novel that sparkles with wit
and intelligence and deep feeling about two lifelong friends whose worlds converge after many
years apart in the face of a devastating tragedy. " Kin is the kind of all-encompassing
reading experience I’m always hoping to find: smart and funny and deftly profound. This is
Tayari Jones’s very best work.” —Ann Patchett author of Tom Lake Vernice and Annie two
motherless daughters raised in Honeysuckle Louisiana have been best friends and neighbors
since earliest childhood but are fated to live starkly different lives. Raised by a fierce aunt
determined to give her a stable home in the wake of her mother’s death Vernice leaves
Honeysuckle at eighteen for Spelman College where she joins a sisterhood of powerfully
connected Black women and discovers a world of affluence manners aspiration and inequality.
Annie abandoned by her mother as a child and fixated on the idea of finding her and filling
the bottomless hole left by her absence sets off on a journey that will take her into a world
of peril and adversity as well as love and adventure culminating in a battle for her life. A
novel about mothers and daughters friendship and sisterhood and the complexities of being a
woman in the American South Kin is an exuberant emotionally rich unforgettable work from one
of the brightest and most irresistible voices in contemporary fiction.
