Kin: Oprah's Book Club

A Novel

By: Tayari Jones

Narrated by: Angel Pean, Ashley J. Hobbs

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR SO FAR 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.

A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR SO FAR

“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

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.

Rich in different ways but deeply sad and loving

I didn’t know what to expect - but as soon as the book started, I knew this was going to be a great experience. Each character was deeply thoughtful and intriguing…each broken and yet their relationships kept a degree of togetherness. I fell in love with the story and was left with so much emotion until the very end.

I wanted it to go 9n and on

set in the South during Jim Crow, this book's history is e aptly what our government is trying to erase. vivid characters. unforgettable

Such a novel! Gorgeous.

Love everything Tayari Jones writes, and Kin is a stunningly moving addition to her fantastic body of work.

A really good read

This book is attention keeping and warm, keeping you interested from the beginning to end. Very good read.

Great

The weiring and story were intriguing, entertaining, and overall a 5 star!!!! Would highly recommend