{"product_id":"kin-oprahs-book-club","title":"Kin: Oprah's Book Club","description":"\n\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTAYARI JONES is the author of four novels \n\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003e most recently \n\u003ci\u003eAn American Marriage, \u003c\/i\u003e which was an Oprah's Book Club selection and also appeared on Barack Obama's summer reading list and his year-end roundup. It won the Women's Prize for Fiction, the Aspen Words Literary Prize, and an NAACP Image Award and has been published in two dozen countries. Jones is the C.H. Candler Professor of English and Creative Writing at Emory University and lives in Atlanta.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e\"Kin \u003c\/i\u003eis a lush, beautiful novel about the family we make. . . . Jones maintains a light touch and a gift for effortless portraiture. . . . When reading \n\u003ci\u003eKin\u003c\/i\u003e, I wanted nothing more than to keep reading it. That's the circle Jones creates, the one that connects her voice, her characters and her readers.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Radhika Jones, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Propulsive and compelling.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Tayari Jones's great subject is family loyalty. . . . \n\u003ci\u003eKin \u003c\/i\u003ealternates with metronomic precision between her main characters' first-person narratives. . . . Loyalties and fortitude are repeatedly tested in this immersive drama. Resilience abounds.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\"Jones's dazzling novel traces the complex range of the Black experience--rich and poor, queer and straight, blessed and cursed--in the Jim Crow South.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\"One of the many pleasures of \n\u003ci\u003eKin \u003c\/i\u003eis how deftly Jones builds the story within the context of the Jim Crow South in mid-twentieth century America. . . . Another novelist might have made these broad social concerns the focus of the story, but Jones foregrounds her characters and lets them navigate these national tensions as naturally and confidently as they move through the streets of Atlanta and Memphis.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Ron Charles \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Jones's emotional directness lends her prose a deep warmth. . . . \n\u003ci\u003eKin \u003c\/i\u003ebucks contemporary expectations by hewing to older ones. In doing so, Jones gives the novel the same sense of inevitable tragedy that animates Edith Wharton's books.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\"Wise, often side-splittingly funny. . . . [ \n\u003ci\u003eKin\u003c\/i\u003e] is a pleasure to read.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Minnesota Star Tribune\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\" \n\u003ci\u003eKin \u003c\/i\u003eis 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.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Ann Patchett, author of \u003ci\u003eTom Lake \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A triumphant return of one of the most important literary voices today. Vibrant, funny, moving and powerful, \n\u003ci\u003eKin\u003c\/i\u003e is an unforgettable read.\" -- \n\u003cb\u003eNguyễn Phan Quế Mai, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Mountains Sing\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A riveting and deeply moving portrait of indelible female friendship, found family and finding your way. . . . This gorgeous novel already feels like a future classic.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Roisin O'Donnell, author of \u003ci\u003eNesting\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Beautifully written and powerfully compelling. . . . Tayari Jones interrogates social injustice through the lens of personal relationships while exploring the ways in which it shapes those relationships, and she does this in language that is intimate, conversational, and musical all at once.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Jones delivers a triumphant novel of two motherless girls from rural Honeysuckle, Louisiana, who follow very different paths into adulthood. . . . Throughout, Jones tells her protagonists' stories with grace, humor, and pathos. \n\u003ci\u003eKin \u003c\/i\u003eis a tour de force.\" ­ \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly \u003c\/i\u003e(starred review)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\"Jones deftly coneys the nuances of Southern Black culture in this novel full of depth, pain, and beauty. . . . A tender love song to southern Black families, communities, and female friendships.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eBooklist \u003c\/i\u003e(starred review) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Tayari Jones once again stuns with a novel full of uninhibited love. . . . Jones develops her protagonists' personalities slowly and with nuance, subtly evolving them into characters one just can't help but root for.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eBookPage \u003c\/i\u003e(starred review)\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Ambitious and accessible, emotionally challenging without pushing readers away. . . . \n\u003ci\u003eKin \u003c\/i\u003eshows off Jones's considerable skill through strong pacing and a plot that is emotionally taut without feeling unnecessarily dramatic. Without fail, Jones delivers a brilliant turn of phrase, at turns witty and insightful.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER A \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eBEST BOOK OF THE YEAR SO FAR OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK - \u003cbr\u003eA magnificent new novel from the bestselling, award-winning author of\u003ci\u003e An American Marriage\u003c\/i\u003e--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. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eBEST BOOK OF THE YEAR SO FAR \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Tayari Jones's storytelling washed over me like a trip back home. . . . \u003ci\u003eKin \u003c\/i\u003eis a masterpiece of a novel that will live with you long after you turn the last page.\" --Oprah Winfrey\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eVernice 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. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA novel about mothers and daughters, friendship and sisterhood, and the complexities of being a woman in the American South, \n\u003ci\u003eKin\u003c\/i\u003e is an exuberant, emotionally rich, unforgettable work from one of the brightest and most irresistible voices in contemporary fiction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations:\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eBooklist\u003c\/span\u003e 01\/01\/2026 (EAN 9780525659181, Hardcover) - *Starred Review\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/span\u003e 01\/23\/2026 pg. 1 (EAN 9780525659181, Hardcover) - *Starred Review\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/span\u003e 12\/15\/2025 (EAN 9780525659181, Hardcover) - *Starred Review\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/span\u003e 01\/01\/2026 (EAN 9780525659181, Hardcover) - *Starred Review\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/span\u003e 12\/30\/0001 (EAN 9780525659181, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n","brand":"Knopf Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51496288092438,"sku":"9780525659181","price":38.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0857\/9910\/8886\/files\/9780525659181.jpg?v=1783059074","url":"https:\/\/lusper.myshopify.com\/products\/kin-oprahs-book-club","provider":"Lusperbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}