Tayari Jones | Kin

Tayari Jones returns with a luminous, deeply moving novel about mothers and daughters, and two lifelong friends whose worlds collide after years apart. Vernice and Annie are born within days of each other in Honeysuckle, Louisiana. Inseparable throughout their childhood, the girls are united by a shared loss, for neither one will ever know her own mother. Coming of age in the segregated America of the 1950s and 60s, at a time when women had few choices and little control over their own bodies, fate leads them down very different paths. Vernice pursues the education that her fiercely determined aunt envisaged for her, but it is marriage into an affluent family that provides her with a way to leave Honeysuckle behind. Yet as Vernice looks to the future, Annie becomes possessed by an all-consuming desire to find her absent mother. When that search pulls her into a world of danger, it's Vernice, her oldest friend, who must risk everything to save her. 'The kind of all-encompassing reading experience I'm always hoping to find: smart and funny and deftly profound. This is Tayari Jones's very best work.' — author Ann Patchett Kin is an emotionally rich, unforgettable work from one of the brightest and most irresistible voices in contemporary fiction. Usually based in the US, we're delighted to have Tayari with us in Cambridge for this exciting new novel. In conversation with Dr Amy Morris, Associate Professor of English at Cambridge University.