Kin: Oprah's Book Club

A Novel

By: Tayari Jones

Narrated by: Angel Pean, Ashley J. Hobbs

OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER •
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.

“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.

Just Buy It!

This was everything and some I bought it the 1st day it landed and im sooo happy I did the story line was amazing and the narrators def brought the story to LFE

KIN

Some of the language did not fit the era in history or the education level of the characters described

MOST READ!!!!!

I dont have words to describe how wonderful this book was!!! Everything about it was outstanding from the narration to the plot.

Amazing

I loved everything about this book. From the beginning to the end. A journey through both ladies life all the ups and downs. Thoroughly enjoyed

Superb!

Great storyline and delivery. It kept me wanting more. Narrations made it all come alive; it felt like I knew the characters personally.