Kin: A Novel by Tayari Jones - Oprah's Book Club & NYT Bestseller - Fiction - Hardback

Condition: BRAND NEW. Format: Hardback. ISBN: 9780861543908. Publisher: Oneworld Publications. Overview:. Kin is the spellbinding new novel from Tayari Jones, Women's Prize-winning author of An American Marriage, and an Oprah's Book Club pick. Set in the fictional Louisiana town of Honeysuckle, it follows Vernice and Annie, "cradle friends" born days apart, both destined never to know their mothers. Their bond deepens through childhood before the pressures of the segregated 1950s American South pull them onto very different paths. A New York Times bestseller, Kin is a rich story of friendship, family and the families we build for ourselves.. About the Book:. Vernice and Annie grow up next door to one another in Honeysuckle, Louisiana, inseparable despite the absence of their mothers from birth. Vernice is raised by a determined aunt who saves to send her to Spelman College, where she joins a sisterhood of Black women and marries into an affluent family. Annie, abandoned as an infant, is raised by her grandmother and remains consumed by the search for the mother who left her, drawn into a world of risk and dubious company. As their lives diverge, the novel traces the widening gap between the two women with warmth, humour and honesty about the limits placed on Black girls in the Jim Crow South. Jones writes with a light touch and a gift for portraiture, letting readers inhabit Vernice's and Annie's inner worlds as ambition, love and disappointment pull them along different roads. A devastating tragedy eventually forces the pair back together, and in this reunion the novel finds its emotional core: forgiveness, loyalty and what it truly means to be kin. Set against the civil rights era, Kin meditates on Southern Black life and the families we construct when the ones we're given fall short, combining a page-turning plot with genuine literary depth.. Key Benefits:. Written by Tayari Jones, winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction for An American Marriage.. An Oprah's Book