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By: Tayari Jones
Narrated by: Angel Pean, Ashley J. Hobbs
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Summary

 Kin is the kind of all-encompassing reading experience I'm always hoping to find: smart and funny.
ANN PATCHETT

A magnificent new novel from the bestselling, award-winning author of An American Marriage-a novel that sparkles with wit, intelligence and deep feeling about two lifelong friends whose worlds collide in the face of a devastating tragedy.

Vernice and Annie, two motherless daughters raised in Honeysuckle, Louisiana, have been best friends and neighbours 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 Atlanta, 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, 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. Women's Voices Funny
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Editorial Review

The bonds that make us Kin
I can't believe it's been eight years since the release of An American Marriage, which remains one of my favorite listening experiences. It's a powerful novel about a young marriage undone by injustice when the husband is wrongfully convicted and sentenced to 12 years in prison. I know Tayari Jones's new novel will also pack an emotional punch. In Kin, Jones explores female friendship, chosen family, and Black Southern womanhood through the lives of two motherless daughters whose lives diverge dramatically from their Louisiana roots. One finds sisterhood at Spelman; the other embarks on a perilous journey of self-discovery. Told in alternating perspectives with narrators Angel Pean and Ashley J. Hobbs bringing these women to life, this promises to be a listen worth clearing my calendar for. —Margaret H., Audible Editor

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I listened to this book as it was recommended in Oprah’s book club. And it didn’t disappoint. As the story of cradle friends Vernice and Annie, two orphaned girls who grew up together set on different paths from teenagers. One who chose to runaway to a life of continued struggles, while the other had opportunity to education and people who expanded her world. Their lives reunite and the story unfolds as they rekindle their friendship, hardships, joys and sorrows. I found the “she said” “he said” a little overdone in the narration, but if you can get past that the story gets you in. KRW

A representation of friends living through challenging times

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Started off good and then it got so boring in the middle that I stopped reading

Boring story

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