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\nJoin us for the liv estream of our author talk with international bestselling author\, Tayari Jones! This program is the hallmark capstone for our 75th anniversary.
\nA 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. A magnificent new novel from the bestselling\, award-winning author of \ ;An American Marriage&mdash\;Tayari Jones has written an unforgettable nov el that sparkles with wit and intelligence and deep feeling about two life long friends whose worlds converge after many years apart in the face of a devastating tragedy.
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\nNew York Times best-selling author Tayari Jones is the author of five novels\, most recently Kin. P ublished in 2026\, it is an Oprah&rsquo\;s Book Club Selection. The New Yo rk Times and Amazon editors have named it the best novel of the year so fa r. She is also among the TIME100 list of the most influential people in th e world. Her previous novel\, An American Marriage\, was also an Oprah&rsq uo\;s Book Club Selection and appeared on Barack Obama&rsquo\;s summer rea ding list. The novel was awarded the Women&rsquo\;s Prize for Fiction\, As pen Words Prize and an NAACP Image Award. It has been published in two doz en languages.
\nJones\, a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow\, has also been a r ecipient of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award\, United States Artist Fellows hip\, NEA Fellowship\, and Radcliffe Institute Bunting Fellowship. Her thi rd novel\, Silver Sparrow\, was added to the NEA Big Read Library of class ics in 2016.
\nJones is a graduate of Spelman College\, University o f Iowa\, and Arizona State University. She is an Andrew D. White Professor -at-Large at Cornell University and the Charles Howard Candler Professor o f Creative Writing at Emory University.
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\nThis program is sponsore d in partnership with the Friends of the Library Montgomery County (FOLMC) \, and the Office of Racial Equity and Social Justice.
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