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Kin by Tayari Jones

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK • KIRKUS PRIZE FINALIST • 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.

“Kin is 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.” —Ann Patchett, author of Whistler

Vernice and Annie grew up together in rural Louisiana, both motherless, both determined to make lives bigger than the ones they were handed. When Vernice earns a spot at Spelman College, she steps into a world of affluence and Black female sisterhood she never imagined for herself.

Annie takes a different road entirely, setting out to find the mother who abandoned her, a journey that carries her through both danger and unexpected grace. As their paths diverge, the friendship that once anchored them both is tested by distance, class, and the different women they're becoming.

Kin is Tayari Jones's tender, clear-eyed exploration of mothers and daughters, sisterhood, and what it means to build a family from whoever shows up for you. Ann Patchett calls it "Tayari Jones's very best work", and readers of An American Marriage will recognize the same emotional precision, now turned toward the bonds between women.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK • KIRKUS PRIZE FINALIST • 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.

“Kin is 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.” —Ann Patchett, author of Whistler

Vernice and Annie grew up together in rural Louisiana, both motherless, both determined to make lives bigger than the ones they were handed. When Vernice earns a spot at Spelman College, she steps into a world of affluence and Black female sisterhood she never imagined for herself.

Annie takes a different road entirely, setting out to find the mother who abandoned her, a journey that carries her through both danger and unexpected grace. As their paths diverge, the friendship that once anchored them both is tested by distance, class, and the different women they're becoming.

Kin is Tayari Jones's tender, clear-eyed exploration of mothers and daughters, sisterhood, and what it means to build a family from whoever shows up for you. Ann Patchett calls it "Tayari Jones's very best work", and readers of An American Marriage will recognize the same emotional precision, now turned toward the bonds between women.

  • Publisher: Knopf

    Title: Kin

    Author: Tayari Jones

    On Sale Date: February 24, 2026

    ISBN 13: 9780525659181

    ISBN 10: 0525659188

    Format: Hardcover

    Retail Price: $32.00

    BISAC: Literary Fiction / Women's Fiction

    Page Count: 368

    Dimensions: 9 1/4 in H | 6 1/8 in W

  • Tayari Jones is the author of four novels, including the bestselling An American Marriage, an Oprah's Book Club selection and winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction, the Aspen Words Literary Prize, and an NAACP Image Award, published in more than two dozen countries. She holds the C. H. Candler Professorship in Creative Writing at Emory University in Atlanta, where she teaches fiction. Kin is her long-awaited return, a novel Ann Patchett calls "Tayari Jones's very best work."

  • Readers are calling it tender, sweeping, and unforgettable:

    • Readers describe Kin as an emotionally rich family saga that's impossible to put down once Vernice and Annie's stories take hold.

    • Many highlight Tayari Jones's clear-eyed portrait of Black sisterhood and the different kinds of mothering that shape a life.

    • Book clubs are praising the novel's honest look at class, ambition, and the price of reinvention.

    • Several reviewers call it Jones's most emotionally precise work since An American Marriage, with an ending that lingers.

This book is for you if

  • You've ever had a friend who felt like family, or family who felt like strangers

  • You love a sweeping story that follows two women's lives across decades

  • You're drawn to novels about mothers, daughters, and the bonds we choose

  • You loved An American Marriage and want more of Tayari Jones's emotional precision

  • You want a book club pick that sparks real conversation about class, ambition, and belonging

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