Kin: Oprah's Book Club

A Novel

De: Tayari Jones

Narrado por: Angel Pean, Ashley J. Hobbs

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.

Worth the read, but ending could have been better.

I really enjoyed this book. I was hoping more from the ending. I was almost shocked that there was nothing else to the story.

Team Babydoll

Books just keep getting better American Divorce, Silver Sparrow and now Kin all just wonderfully written.

Who can’t love a good story…

This story is more than friendship… it’s survival, So many things and tidbits conjoined together for so many circles of conversations that need to be had today… yesterday… and tomorrow.

Family is who you choose

This was a strong and thoughtful read that followed two women who grew up together but ultimately took very different paths in life. Tayari Jones beautifully explored heavy and important themes such as the loss of parents, domestic violence, trauma, and struggles with identity.

What stood out most was the familial bond the women created with one another. Even without traditional ties, their shared experiences and deep connection made them kin in the truest sense of the word. That relationship gave the story its emotional core and depth.

Overall, this was a meaningful and well-written novel that highlights how chosen family and shared history can shape who we become.

So good

Don't know where to start... but this checked so many boxes. Stirred up some things in my soul...