Tayari Jones

St. Louis County Library Foundation’s Favorite Author Series and Left Bank Books Presents Acclaimed Novelist Tayari Jones

 
Author of “Kin”
 

Presented in Partnership with SLCL’s Black History Celebration, Ameren and Kimbilio for Black Fiction

Award-winning author of “An American Marriage,” Tayari Jones has written an unforgettable novel about two lifelong friends. Vernice and Annie, motherless daughters raised in Honeysuckle, Louisiana, have been best friends since earliest childhood but are fated to live starkly different lives. Vernice leaves Honeysuckle for Spelman College and discovers a world of affluence. Annie sets off on a journey that will take her into a world of peril and adversity, culminating in a battle for her life. A novel about mothers and daughters, friendship and sisterhood, “Kin” is an emotionally rich work from one of the brightest voices in contemporary fiction.

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