{"product_id":"kin-a-novel-tayari-jones","title":"Kin: A Novel \/\/\/ Tayari Jones \/\/\/ pre","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e-- This is a preorder title and will ship on or after February 17, 2026 --\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA magnificent new novel from the bestselling, award-winning author of\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eAn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eKin\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\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.” —Ann Patchett, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eTom Lake\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA novel about mothers and daughters, friendship and sisterhood, and the complexities of being a woman in the American South, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eKin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is an exuberant, emotionally rich, unforgettable work from one of the brightest and most irresistible voices in contemporary fiction.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBIO\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTayari Jones\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of four novels\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e most recently \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAn American Marriage,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eREVIEWS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\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.” \u003cstrong\u003e-- \u003cb\u003eAnn Patchett, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eTom Lake\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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.” \u003cstrong\u003e-- Kirkus (starred review)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cb\u003e[H]  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eKnopf Publishing Group  \/  February 24, 2026\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e0.84\" H x 9.25\" L x 6.13\" W (1.29 lbs) 368 pages\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44849605083312,"sku":"9780525659181","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0515\/3832\/9776\/files\/9780525659181.jpg?v=1763556419","url":"https:\/\/checkout.bembrooklyn.com\/products\/kin-a-novel-tayari-jones","provider":"BEM | books \u0026 more (Online)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}