Kin

Tayari Jones’s Kin follows two motherless girls growing up side by side in Honeysuckle, Louisiana, bound together by friendship and the shared ache of abandonment and loss. Vernice is raised by a formidable aunt who is determined to give her stability and a future, and at eighteen she leaves for Atlanta, where she finds a powerful network of Black women and a world shaped by ambition, affluence, manners and inequality. Annie, still haunted by the mother who left her, sets out to track her down, a search that leads her into danger as well as love and hard-won self-knowledge. Warm, sharp and emotionally layered, Kin is a novel about mothers and daughters, friendship and sisterhood, and the complicated realities of womanhood in the American South. Useful additional information Author: Tayari Jones