Kin: Oprah's Book Club

A Novel

De: Tayari Jones

Narrado por: Angel Pean, Ashley J. Hobbs

OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK • 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.

Just Buy It!

This was everything and some I bought it the 1st day it landed and im sooo happy I did the story line was amazing and the narrators def brought the story to LFE

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.

Such a novel! Gorgeous.

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

My ❤️

This book was absolutely amazing. I had it finished in two days. I could not stop listening. As a daughter and the mother, I realize how important both rules are and now I’m a grandma and I would raise my grandchildren if my children could not. I swear I felt every role in my soul from this book.

It was an ode to the ancestors and the chosen family that have shaped our lives.

There are few books that truly speak to and honor the lived experiences of the black woman I am and the women who I grew up around.

Tayari, thank you for telling our stories and the stories of our ancestors, and for honoring our CHOSEN family that so intricately shape who we are and who we become. You showed the beauty, pain, and reality of our experience written with care and so much love.

BRAVO!