Join us to discuss \;Kin by Tayari Jones.
\nOPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK *&nbs p\;A magnificent new novel from the bestselling\, award-winning author of& nbsp\;An American Marriage--Tayari Jones has written an unforgett able novel that sparkles with wit and intelligence and deep feeling about two lifelong friends whose worlds converge after many years apart in the f ace of a devastating tragedy.
\n"Tayari Jones's sto rytelling washed over me like a trip back home. . . . \;Kin&n bsp\;is a masterpiece of a novel that will live with you long after you tu rn the last page." --Oprah Winfrey
\nVernice and Annie\, tw o motherless daughters raised in Honeysuckle\, Louisiana\, have been best friends and neighbors since earliest childhood but are fated to live stark ly different lives. Raised by a fierce aunt determined to give her a stabl e home in the wake of her mother's death\, Vernice leaves Honeysuckle at e ighteen for Spelman College\, where she joins a sisterhood of powerfully c onnected Black women and discovers a world of affluence\, manners\, aspira tion\, and inequality. Annie\, abandoned by her mother as a child and fixa ted 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 fo r her life.
\nA novel about mothers and daughters\, friendship and s isterhood\, and the complexities of being a woman in the American South\,& nbsp\;Kin \;is an exuberant\, emotionally rich\, unforgettabl e work from one of the brightest and most irresistible voices in contempor ary fiction.
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