Kin
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5.0 • 1 Rating
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Publisher Description
Kin is the kind of all-encompassing reading experience I'm always hoping to find: smart and funny.
ANN PATCHETT
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 marries into an affluent family.
Annie, abandoned by her dissolute 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, and culminate in a battle for her life.
A novel about mothers and daughters, about 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.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Tayari Jones’ poignantly titled novel Kin digs into the tenderest and most deeply felt meaning of the word. Growing up in Honeysuckle, Louisiana, Annie and Niecy both lost their mothers when they were far too young to understand. Annie is brash and outgoing while Niecy is pensive and withdrawn, but their mutual grief forges a connection between them that’s more powerful and intimate than they share with anyone else. It’s a beautiful, heart-wrenching experience to follow these young Black women as they travel their own diverging paths out into the world of the 1950s and ’60s American South. Even throughout Annie’s sometimes-reckless vagabond search for the mother who abandoned her and Niecy’s eye-opening experiences with class disparities and the civil rights movement at college, their lifelong bond stretches—but never breaks. A story of spiritual sisterhood and surrogate motherhood, Kin is heartbreaking in the best possible way.
