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Kin - by Tayari Jones (Hardcover)

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  • 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.
  • About the Author: TAYARI JONES is the author of four novels, most recently An American Marriage, which was an Oprah's Book Club selection and also appeared on Barack Obama's summer reading list and his year-end roundup.
  • 368 Pages
  • Fiction + Literature Genres, Literary

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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.



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"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



About the Author



TAYARI JONES is the author of four novels, most recently An American Marriage, which was an Oprah's Book Club selection and also appeared on Barack Obama's summer reading list and his year-end roundup. It won the Women's Prize for Fiction, the Aspen Words Literary Prize, and an NAACP Image Award and has been published in two dozen countries. Jones is the C.H. Candler Professor of English and Creative Writing at Emory University and lives in Atlanta.
Dimensions (Overall): 9.3 Inches (H) x 6.1 Inches (W) x 1 Inches (D)
Weight: 1 Pounds
Suggested Age: Adult
Number of Pages: 368
Genre: Fiction
Sub-Genre: Literary
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover
Author: Tayari Jones
Language: English
Street Date: February 24, 2026
TCIN: 1005928007
UPC: 9780525659181
Item Number (DPCI): 059-01-5186
Origin: Made in the USA
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21 August, 2026

an original heartwrenching story

Format: Gifted eARC + I grabbed the Physical Book and Audiobook Pages: 368 Audiobook length: 13h 10m Narrator: Angel Pean & Ashley J. Hobbs Publisher: Knopf, Pantheon, Vintage, and Anchor | Knopf + Penguin Random House + Random House Audio an original story of two motherless daughters in the American South Overall Book Rating: ⭐⭐⭐💫 3.5 Audiobook Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 (phenomenal performances by Angel and Ashley!) Thank you so much Knopf, Pantheon, Vintage, and Anchor | Knopf and NetGalley for the gifted eARC. This is my voluntary, honest review. I recommend this story for those who are looking for a story with heavier topics and that is a historical fiction novel set in the American South. I recommend immersive reading this story. I appreciated the POVs of the main characters, Annie and Vernice, and it was heartbreaking and touching to see their stories intertwine and separate. As someone from the South, the history of Alabama and the deep south is very heartbreaking at times reading this type of story, a work of fiction, but reflecting what it was like from the perspective of people of color. Expect to cry reading this and expect to understand their stories through multiple POVs. I wanted to know more details around the MCs and get some closure to some of those relationships by the end!
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