Kin

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK • A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

A magnificent new novel from the bestselling, award-winning author of An American Marriage—an unforgettable story that sparkles with wit, intelligence, and deep feeling about two lifelong friends whose worlds converge after many years apart in the face of a devastating tragedy.

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, 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 finding her, 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 voices in contemporary fiction.

Praise for Kin:

• "Tayari Jones's storytelling washed over me like a trip back home... Kin is a masterpiece of a novel that will live with you long after you turn the last page." —Oprah Winfrey
• "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
• "A lush, beautiful novel about the family we make... When reading Kin, I wanted nothing more than to keep reading it." —The New York Times Book Review
• "Jones's dazzling novel traces the complex range of the Black experience... in the Jim Crow South." —People
• "Wise, often side-splittingly funny... a pleasure to read." —The Minnesota Star Tribune
• "A tour de force." —Publishers Weekly, starred review
• "Beautifully written and powerfully compelling." —Kirkus Reviews, starred review
• "A tender love song to southern Black families, communities, and female friendships." —Booklist, starred review

About the Author: Tayari Jones is the author of four novels, most recently An American Marriage, an Oprah's Book Club selection, winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction and the Aspen Words Literary Prize. She is the C.H. Candler Professor of English and Creative Writing at Emory University and lives in Atlanta.