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 Club pick and New York Times bestseller, named a Most Anticipated Book of 2026.
• A rich, character-driven story of friendship and family, ideal for book clubs.
• Brand new hardback edition with durable case binding, perfect for gifting or collecting.
• Emotionally deep yet propulsive, rewarding both casual readers and literary fiction fans.

About the Author:
Tayari Jones is the internationally bestselling author of five novels, including An American Marriage, winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2019. Born and raised in Atlanta, she holds degrees from Spelman College, the University of Iowa, and Arizona State University. Jones has received the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, a United States Artists Fellowship, an NEA Fellowship, and a Radcliffe Institute Bunting Fellowship. She is a professor of Creative Writing at Emory University and an Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University.

Why You'll Love This Novel:
If you loved An American Marriage, Kin offers the same emotional intelligence and lyrical prose, wrapped around an unforgettable friendship spanning decades, heartbreak and home.

Please Note: This listing is for the UK hardback edition (ISBN 9780861543908) with cover as shown.