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.

Incredible storytelling that transported me back to my Louisiana roots.

What bittersweet storytelling. I didn’t want the story to end. The writing and the audio production are so well done, this book made me homesick.

BABY!!!!

When I tell you this is a slow burn but worth every minute!!!!!! Great book and a must listen!!!!

Sisterhood is amazing

Loved the characters and how they came to life will live with us forever and ever!

Family is not always bloodline

I loved this book. I can identify with it, meaning seeking love from my mother.

Such beautiful language!

While the story and the characters were rich and meaningful, I can’t get past the rhythm and poetry of her descriptions. The language is absolutely captivating.