Kin

A magnificent new novel from the bestselling,award-winning author of An American MarriageΓÇöTayari 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. Vernice and Annietwo motherless daughters raised in HoneysuckleLouisianahave 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 motherΓÇÖs deathVernice leaves Honeysuckle at eighteen for Spelman Collegewhere she joins a sisterhood of powerfully connected Black women and discovers a world of affluencemannersaspirationand inequality. Annieabandoned by her mother as a child and fixated on the idea of finding her and filling the bottomless hole left by her absencesets off on a journey that will take her into a world of peril and adversityas well as love and adventureculminating in a battle for her life. A novel about mothers and daughtersfriendship and sisterhoodand the complexities of being a woman in the American SouthKin is an exuberantemotionally richunforgettable work from one of the brightest and most irresistible voices in contemporary fiction.