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Kin: Oprah's Book Club

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Kin: Oprah's Book Club

By: Tayari Jones
Narrated by: Angel Pean, Ashley J. Hobbs
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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.

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Editorial Review

The bonds that make us Kin
I can't believe it's been eight years since the release of An American Marriage, which remains one of my favorite listening experiences. It's a powerful novel about a young marriage undone by injustice when the husband is wrongfully convicted and sentenced to 12 years in prison. I know Tayari Jones's new novel will also pack an emotional punch. In Kin, Jones explores female friendship, chosen family, and Black Southern womanhood through the lives of two motherless daughters whose lives diverge dramatically from their Louisiana roots. One finds sisterhood at Spelman; the other embarks on a perilous journey of self-discovery. Told in alternating perspectives with narrators Angel Pean and Ashley J. Hobbs bringing these women to life, this promises to be a listen worth clearing my calendar for. — Margaret H., Audible Editor

Beautifully Written Story • Compelling Characters • Powerful Emotional Landscapes • Authentic Representation

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

Such a novel! Gorgeous.

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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.

Rich in different ways but deeply sad and loving

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

I wanted it to go 9n and on

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

A really good read

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

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